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Pakistan-Afghanistan talks to resume

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold another round of peace talks in Istanbul next week and will maintain a ceasefire until then, Turkey’s...

‘Heavy clashes’ at tense border, say Taliban

KABUL – Afghanistan’s Taliban forces launched armed reprisals against Pakistani soldiers along the shared border on Saturday, accusing Islamabad of carrying out air strikes...

Powerful quake aftershocks cause more deaths, injuries in Afghanistan

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – A series of strong aftershocks from a deadly earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan at the weekend injured at least another 10...

Hope dwindles for survivors days after deadly Afghan quake

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – Hope faded Wednesday of finding survivors in the rubble of homes devastated by the weekend’s powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, as...

Long-awaited pension payments for retirees

KABUL – After a four-year suspension, the Taliban government has announced it would resume pension payments for Afghanistan’s nearly 150,000 retired military and civil...

Families forever scarred 4 years after air crash

KABUL, Afghanistan – The day after the Taliban stormed into the Afghan capital in August 2021, Afghans desperate to evacuate clung to the fuselage...

Afghan women risk Taliban wrath over hair trade

KABUL—Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair to be made into wigs, bringing in...

US-bound Afghans left ‘sans options’ as Trump incoming travel ban looms

WASHINGTON, DC—As a young man, Muhammad Ilyas stood side-by-side with US soldiers as they took on the Taliban in his native Afghanistan, working as...

Islamic State group claims suicide bombing

KABUL – The Islamic State group claimed a suicide bombing of a bank in north Afghanistan that killed eight people, saying on Wednesday it...

Taekwondo star Hamidi sacrifices her freedom to battle the Taliban

PARIS—Afghan taekwondo star Marzieh Hamidi told AFP the death threats she has received, forcing her to live under French police protection, show how effective...

‘Afghan women may speak to each other’

Women in Afghanistan are not forbidden from speaking to each other, the Taliban government’s morality ministry told AFP on Saturday, denying recent media reports...

Afghan women continue medical studies in Scotland

GLASGOW, United Kingdom—When the Taliban banned women from attending university in Afghanistan, Zahra Hussaini thought her dream of becoming a doctor was over. Now,...

Philippines to process ‘limited number’ of Afghans seeking US visas

Manila, Philippines—The Philippines said Tuesday it has agreed to allow a "limited number" of Afghans to temporarily stay in the Philippines while being processed for...

Taliban celebrate 3 years since takeover with military show

BAGRAM – Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers celebrated three years in power on Wednesday with a military parade paying homage to their homemade bombs used in...
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