“We Will Never Recognise the Taliban,” Says Spain Foreign Minister

“A Country at a Crossroads”: UN Deputy Envoy Warns Afghanistan Is Sliding Deeper Into Crisis

Taliban Destroy 657 Musical Instruments in Nangarhar

Taliban Ban on Afghan Women Entering UN Premises Reaches Three Months

Taliban Execute Man in Public Gathering in Khost province

Taliban Detain 70-Year-Old TikTok User Over Alleged ‘Un-Islamic’ Content

Vaccine Hesitancy Leaves Thousands of Children in Uruzgan at Risk

Following a shooting near the White House, Washington suspends all Afghan immigration and resettlement applications indefinitely, leaving thousands stranded abroad.

Explainer: Ashraf Ghani Breaks Silence as Pakistan–Taliban Tensions Escalate Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani issues two detailed statements calling for national consensus and warning against new cycles of internal conflict.

Expanding Restrictions Silence Women in Southern Afghanistan’s Media

Pakistan Airstrikes Kill 10 Civilians in Afghanistan

Covert Classrooms and Invisible Incomes: How Afghan Women Are Resisting

‘There Is No School Here’: Returnee Families in Helmand Fear for Their Children’s Future

Afghan Sports Journalists Condemn Pakistani Airstrike That Killed Local Cricketers in Paktika

ACB Condemns Pakistan Airstrike That Killed Cricketers in Paktika theafghantimes.com/acb-condemns...

Eight Local Cricketers Killed in Pakistani Airstrikes on Paktika

Afghan Journalist Killed, Another Wounded in Reported Cross-Border Fire from Pakistani Forces theafghantimes.com/afghan-journ...

Afghan Journalist Killed, Another Wounded in Reported Cross-Border Fire from Pakistani Forces theafghantimes.com/afghan-journ...

Taliban Imposes New Ban on Women’s Traditional Household Activities

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Afghanistan reconnects to the world amid lingering questions over the blackout

Taliban Cuts Internet Nationwide, Silencing Afghanistan’s Digital Lifeline

Taliban Ban Male Tailors from Sewing Women’s Clothes in Kandahar

Afghan Journalist Salma Niazi Wins One Young World Journalist of the Year and Lyra McKee Award for Bravery

Salma Niazi, the founder & Editor-in-Chief of @theafghantimes.com won the prestigious The One Young World Journalist of the Year Award recognising 3 of the world's most promising journalists. Congratulations! #CourageSolidarityHope www.oneyoungworld.com/JOTY-2025-Wi...

‘We Slept Under the Rain’: Thousands Homeless After Deadly Kunar Earthquake

Death Toll from Kunar Earthquake Rises to 2,205, Taliban Say

A powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, killing 1,411 people in Kunar province, injuring more than 3,100, and destroying over 5,400 homes.

Afghanistan Quake Death Toll Passes 1,100

The U.S., U.K., Russia, Egypt, UAE, Bangladesh, Qatar, Syria, Saudi Arabia, UN, EU, Japan, Turkey, India, Pakistan and Iran expressed condolences. Britain and Russia pledged aid, Egypt’s Al-Azhar voiced solidarity, and other states issued sympathy messages.

Women Injured in the Earthquake: Concerns They May Receive Treatment Later Than Men, Say Women’s Rights Activists Read more: theafghantimes.com/powerful-ear...

Powerful Earthquake Devastates Eastern Afghanistan, Hundreds Killed in Kunar Province

Taliban Ban Poets From Writing About Love, Friendship Between Boys and Girls

In Nimroz Province, Children Forced into Hard Labor to Support Drug-Addicted Fathers

More than 3,500 Children in Khost Work in Brick Kilns

Under Taliban rule, one woman’s workshop helps 60 widows and orphans rebuild their lives

With schools closed and training for women halted, public health facilities across southern Afghanistan face collapse.

A 45-year-old man has married a six-year-old girl in Helmand province, according to local sources.

“They won’t let us work outside—now they’re closing our homes too.” In Kandahar, women’s home-based businesses are collapsing under Taliban restrictions.

The Hands That Should Hold Books

The institutionalized denial of universal human rights drives the growth of child labour #EndChildLabour #ILC2025 @iloactrav.bsky.social @ipes-food.org @grain.org iufap.org/2025/06/01/t...

NEW Special REPORT: Child Labour in Taliban’s Afghanistan Stories of stolen childhoods, forced labour & survival — told by Afghan women journalists. @iufasia-pacific.bsky.social Read it now:

Pakistan’s Deportation Drive Puts Afghan Women’s Lives at Risk UN and rights groups condemn expulsions as women and children make up majority of returnees.

In southern Afghanistan, women are forced into car trunks—exposing a deeply rooted system that erases them from public life.

Taliban Arrest Children in Ghazni, Accuse Them of Selling Hair and Theft Rights groups condemn arbitrary detention of minors amid rising abuse of power by Taliban authorities.

Premature Births Double in Central-Southern Afghanistan Amid Alarming Rise in Child Marriages

How Aid Cuts Are Fueling a Malnutrition Crisis in Afghanistan: What You Need to Know

Real lives: We used to dance in weddings. Now, we dance in silence.

Real lives: My Sister Taught Girls in Secret — They Took Her Away

In Afghanistan, over 7,000 schools have no buildings, and more than 2.2 million girls are banned from learning. In this context, even a dirt-floor classroom becomes a sanctuary of resistance—where every raised hand defies erasure.