Afghanistan’s de-facto Taliban rulers said they have reached agreement with visiting US officials on an exchange of prisoners, although no details were given and Washington has not yet confirmed that a deal has been struck.
At least 12 Pakistani soldiers were killed and four others injured in an attack by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group in the Bar area of South Waziristan on September 13, according to the Pakistani military.
Schoolchildren in an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan say they fear their education will be severely disrupted if they're forcibly returned to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Schoolchildren in an Afghan refugee camp near Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan say they fear their education will be severely disrupted if they're forcibly returned to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Afghans in Pakistan had until August 31 to return home or face forced repatriation.
Hamidullah weeps amid the ruins of his family home in Afghanistan that was destroyed by a massive earthquake. The teen is the sole survivor in his family from the August 31 tremor. He and his neighbors have pulled the bodies of his parents, five sisters, and two brothers from the rubble.
A teenager from Afghanistan's Kunar Province tells RFE/RL's Radio Azadi how he returned from work in the city of Jalalabad to find his parents, five sisters, and two brothers dead, and his home destroyed.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that could designate countries that have wrongfully detained US citizens as state sponsors of terrorism, including Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, and China.
Thousands of Afghans are returning home from Pakistan after Islamabad imposed an August 31 deadline for them to return or face forcible repatriation. The exodus comes despite a 6.0-magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that killed more than 1,400 people and left many more homeless.
Sola lost eight members of her family, including all her male relatives, in Afghanistan’s worst earthquake in years.
The death toll in a massive earthquake in Afghanistan last week has been nearly doubled to 2,205 as rescue workers continue to trickle into the remote mountainous area flattened by the disaster.
The Afghan Taliban’s demolition of a memorial of Alisher Navoi in Mazar-e Sharif sparked outrage among Uzbeks. The move was reversed after backlash, with promises to rebuild. The incident reveals how Taliban's rigid ideology can yield to diplomacy and economic ties, especially with Uzbekistan.
Wazir Khan lost 10 members of his family in the deadly earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on August 31.
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