Escalating Conflict: Pakistan Bombs Afghanistan, Strikes Kabul and Taliban Camps
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026
Pakistan bombs Taliban targets in Kabul and major Afghan cities, claiming retaliation for attacks. Casualties mount on both sides, with reports of over 100 deaths.
The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2024
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue.
Flash floods kill hundreds and injure many others in Afghanistan
SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024
Flash floods from seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed hundreds of people and injured a “substantial number,” a Taliban official said Saturday, without giving exact figures.
More than 2,000 dead from powerful earthquakes in Afghanistan
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 08, 2023
Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It’s one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades.
'We have no future': female students turned away from Afghan universities after Taliban ban
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2022
Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on Wednesday after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education.
Taliban calls for foreign aid for Afghan flood victims
SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 2022
After the death toll from flooding in Afghanistan hit 192 this month, the Taliban administration on Saturday appealed for help from the international community.
Taliban mark year in power that has given Afghanistan security but little hope
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2022
The Taliban marked a year in power on Monday with celebrations by the group's fighters and leaders as Afghanistan struggles with rising poverty, drought, malnutrition and fading hope among women that they will have a decisive role in the country's future.
One year after Taliban takeover: The Afghan women who don't give up
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2022
On August 15 last year, Taliban militants seize Kabul. The Taliban's return to power led to the deprivation of many Afghan women's rights. But some of them are still fighting for their right to this day.
India sends official delegation to Kabul for high-level talks
FRIDAY, JUNE 03, 2022
While India has still not recognised the regime in Kabul, a team from India has reached the Afghan capital to meet senior members of the Taliban government.
Pakistan and outlawed Taliban group agree to ‘indefinite ceasefire’
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022
The government of Pakistan and the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have agreed to extend the ceasefire, this time indefinitely, and continue negotiations to find an end to the nearly two decades of militancy in the tribal border region, it has been reliably learnt.