Families in eastern Afghanistan continue to recover their dead after an earthquake struck on August 31, killing more than 1,400 people. RFE/RL's Radio Azadi spoke to a man in Kunar Province who lost 10 family members. He and fellow survivors are sheltering under tents near their destroyed homes.
Dozens of Afghan commandos are being airdropped into a remote mountainous region along the eastern border with Pakistan to help in the race to rescue victims of an earthquake late last week that has claimed the lives of more than 1,400 people, according to Taliban authorities.
A massive earthquake this week that killed more than 1,400 people in Afghanistan has left women, already struggling under the strict rules of the Taliban-led government, vulnerable because of a lack of support.
An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan leveled entire villages, residents told RFE/RL, leaving survivors to sleep outside. Over 1,400 people have died, as neighbors and aid workers race against time to save lives.
More than 1,400 people are reported dead and thousands of others injured as aid workers continue to battle to get to a remote mountainous region of Afghanistan following a devastating earthquake that flattened villages.
Hundreds of people are reported dead after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near the city of Jalalabad close to the Pakistan border on August 31. Taliban authorities said at least 800 people have been killed and 2,500 injured.
Aid workers are racing to a remote area of Afghanistan with emergency, food, and medical supplies following an earthquake that flattened villages and killed hundreds of people.
This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at growing concerns in Iran about the Taliban’s new dam in Afghanistan that threatens the water supply of millions in northeastern Iran.
Amid a major diplomatic push by China across South Asia, Beijing is looking to strengthen ties between the two neighbors at an August 20 trilateral meeting in Kabul where it will discuss integrating Afghanistan into the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Kabul residents have told RFE/RL that they are begging for rice and "ready to accept death," as the World Food Program said it was "turning hundreds of thousands of people away" from nutrition centers.
“We’re turning hundreds of thousands of people away” from food distribution centers amid a funding shortfall, the World Food Program’s country director in Afghanistan has told RFE/RL.
Russia’s recognition of the Taliban marks a bold challenge to Western norms, boosting the group’s quest for legitimacy. The move could sway allies like China and Central Asian states, though Iran and Persian Gulf nations remain cautious.
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