At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, according to UNESCO. This...
Three people have been confirmed killed with 12 injured in a rare suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s political headquarters of Kandahar, Taliban officials have reported. Inamullah Samangani,...
Barely one week after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit the Afghanistan city of Herat on October 7, a similar quake hit the city early Sunday morning....
Days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,400 people and completely destroyed towns, another one has struck a region of Afghanistan. The Herat province’s capital,...
A light earthquake jolted western Afghanistan on Monday as the death toll from last weekend’s quake surpassed 2,000. The United States Geological Survey and residents of...
A Nigerian drug trafficker has been arrested by Taliban forces in Afghanistan. The unnamed suspect, according to a post on the Taliban Public Relations Department X...
The Taliban, on Tuesday, warned that a United Nations meeting on Afghanistan that excluded it from participating could be counter-productive The Taliban threat came on Tuesday...
The Taliban government in Afghanistan has vowed to prosecute Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, over his alleged confession of killing 25 Afghan soldiers. This was according...
The Taliban government on Saturday ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to suspend employing women, allegedly because some female employees didn’t wear the...
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has banned women and girls from attending universities in the country, thereby sparking international condemnation and anguish among young people in...
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The United States has confirmed a prisoner swap with Afghanistan Taliban leaders following the release of an American Navy engineer, Mark Frerichs, in exchange for a...
According to Taliban officials in Afghanistan on Thursday, at least 21 people have died as a result of an overnight bombing inside a mosque in Kabul....
The news of President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s N1.14 billion gift to Niger Republic has continued to trigger outrage among many Nigerians. They wonder why amid dwindling...
A top Taliban commander, Abdul Wali Mohmand, also known as Omar Khalid Khorasani, has been killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan on Monday. Before...
More than 280 people have been killed with hundreds of others injured and displaced as a powerful earthquake ripped through the eastern Afghanistan province of Paktika,...
The Taliban forces have arrested a popular Afghanistan fashion model, Ajmal Haqiqi, alongside three of his colleagues after accusing them of disrespecting Islam and the Muslim...
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has given kudos to President Muhammadu Buhari for his handling of the security situation in the country, saying Nigeria...
German broadcaster, Deutsche Welle (DW), on Monday, confirmed that the crackdown on foreign media by the Taliban administration in Afghanistan had been extended to it as...
The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has taken its war against the media to another level by banning private television stations in the country from airing programmes...
An Afghanistan boy who was trapped for three days inside a well in a village in the southern province of the Asian country, has died, according...
A popular Afghanistan law professor, Faizullah Jalal, has been arrested for criticising the Taliban regime on social media, a spokesman for the government said in a...
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has banned the shaving and trimming of beards in the country, saying the act was un-Islamic. The prohibition was part of...
A desperate mother from the northern Jawzjan province in Afghanistan has been forced to sell one of her new born twin sons to a childless couple...
Gunmen claiming to be Taliban enforcers have killed three guests at an Afghan wedding ceremony on Friday, after demanding that the music they were playing be...
The Taliban has reportedly executed a young female volleyball player while uploading photos of her beheaded body on social media. Mahjabin Hakimi, a highly-rated player with...
A second explosion in as many weeks destroyed a Shiite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, causing heavy casualties, according to...
An explosion occurred on Friday at a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan, killing or wounding at least 100 people, according to CNN report. Police sources reported...
Female judges in Afghanistan say they are being threatened and haunted by men they convicted for rape and murder, after they were freed from prison by...
The Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, on Friday charged the security agents to take proactive measures and prevent the Afghanistan situation in Nigeria. Yahaya, who made...
The leader of the new Taliban government in Afghanistan, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, says cutting off of hands and executions are necessary and will be implemented by...
Past presidents of the United States including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, along with former first ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle...
Former United States President Donald Trump, has described his successor, Joe Biden, as a “total disaster” and “an incompetent leader”. He said he (Trump) would have...
Despite its pledge to ensure the status quo regarding the entrenchment of women’s rights, the Taliban has reneged on its agreement, according to the United Nations....
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane from Islamabad, touched down in Kabul on Monday morning, following the withdrawal of US and allied troops from Afghanistan....
After overthrowing the government of Afghanistan, the Taliban, on Tuesday, announced key posts for their new interim government with strong non-conformist and wanted terrorists as part...
An anti-Taliban resistance group in Afghanistan has asked the United States and the international community not to recognise the new government announced by the Taliban Islamists...
The Taliban on Tuesday announced a team of hardliners into its interim government in Afghanistan with key government roles shared among veterans of the militant group...
The Taliban has reportedly detained several women who participated in a protest near the presidential palace in Kabul on Tuesday. An anti-Pakistan rally took place in...
The Taliban forces in Afghanistan on Saturday broke up a protest staged by women groups in the country’s capital, Kabul. The protest was aimed at calling...
Ariana Afghan Airlines has resumed domestic flights between Kabul and three major provincial cities, after a technical team from Qatar reopened the capital’s airport for aid...
A group of female activists in Afghanistan have staged a protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul on Friday, calling for equal rights and full participation in political life....
An Afghanistan female journalist, Beheshta Arghand, who made history in the country by conducting a ground-breaking interview with a Taliban spokesman on August 17, has fled...
Fawad Andarabi, an Afghan folk singer, has been shot dead by the Taliban in the Baghlan province over the weekend. “He was innocent, a singer who...
The United States has ended its 20-year war in Afghanistan with the final evacuation of its citizens and their allies from Kabul’s airport, the Pentagon said...
U.S. anti-missile defences intercepted as many as five rockets fired at Kabul’s airport early on Monday, a U.S. official said, as the United States rushed to...
40 members of a United States Special Force from the “Who Dares Wins” regiment, have volunteered to remain in the war-torn Afghanistan to avenge deaths of...
A pregnant Afghan refugee, Soman Noori, fleeing to the UK was delivered of a baby girl inside the plane at 30,000 feet while on an evacuation...
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has vowed that his country will retaliate Thursday’s attack at the Kabul airport where over 100 people, including...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has condemned Thursday’s attacks outside the Hamid Karzai Airport in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, where over 100 people were killed...
