State media say at least five people were killed when another, smaller earthquake struck an area of eastern Afghanistan that experienced a devastating quake earlier this week. The state-run Bakhtar News Agency said the quake shook Paktika’s Gayan District on Friday morning. The quake injured more than 11 people, according to initial reports. The region is already reeling from Wednesday’s magnitude 6 quake that killed 1,150 people and injured scores more, according to the latest figures carried in state media.
Survivors appeal for help as Afghanistan's state-run news agency reported a powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of the coun…
Afghanistan's state-run news agency reported a powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of the country's east, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more. Wednesday's quake was the country's deadliest in two decades. Officials warned that the already grim toll may still rise. Information remained scarce on the magnitude 6.1 earthquake near the Pakistani border. But early footage from villages tucked among the rough mountains showed residents picking through rubble of collapsed stone and mud-brick houses. The disaster posed a major test for the Taliban-led government. The Taliban seized power last year as the U.S. and its allies were withdrawing from the country.
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Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on women and girls to comply with the group's austere brand of …
Taliban officials in Afghanistan have ordered female TV presenters to cover their faces while on air.
The decree, which calls for women to only show their eyes and recommends they wear the head-to-toe burqa, evoked similar restrictions on women during the Taliban's previous rule between 1996 and 2001.
Afghanistan's supreme leader appeared publicly for only the second time in six years on Sunday, telling worshippers celebrating Eid al-Fitr th…
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The reversal was so sudden that the Education Ministry was caught off guard on Wednesday, the start of the school year. Some girls in higher grades returned to schools, only to be told to go home.
Norway's Prime Minister briefed the United Nations Security Council Wednesday on three days of talks between the Taliban, Western diplomats an…
Many of Afghanistan's growing number of destitute people are making desperate decisions as their nation spirals into poverty, with some even t…
The Associated Press' Afghanistan-Pakistan news director looks back at a tumultuous year for Afghanistan. Kathy Gannon has covered the country…
The Taliban decreed they were banning forced marriage of women in Afghanistan. It was announced by the reclusive Taliban chief.
Schools for girls from grades 7 to 12 have reopened in Afghanistan's third-largest city, Herat, in what appeared to be a localized change in t…
Two months after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, one of the country's once-prominent female leaders — a former parliament member, can…
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Young Afghans in the capital Kabul have been finding it hard to adjust to life under Taliban rule, with many no longer feeling safe to wear We…
Ruins are all that remain of the Mili Khail village in the once embattled province of Wardak, which marked a frontline between the Taliban and…
Girls in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif continue to attend high school, with teachers reporting that classes are proceeding without any pro…
An explosion went off Friday among Shiite Muslim worshippers at a mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing or wounding at least 100 people, a T…
Today's headlines: Journalists from the Philippines and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize; an Afghanistan mosque blast has left many casualties, a Taliban police official said; plus more.
Now the uncontested rulers of Afghanistan, the Taliban have set their sights on stamping out the scourge of drug addiction, even if by force.
Once a renowned hang-out, the Tabasum café is now an empty space, with just tables and chairs. 23-year-old Nikee Tabasum, who owns the café in…