Around 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition, with the condition threatening the lives of one million of them, according to the UN children’s agency UNICEF. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF’s
Around 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from acute malnutrition, with the condition threatening the lives of one million of them, according to the UN children’s agency UNICEF. Tajudeen Oyewale, UNICEF’s
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UN experts have warned States against normalising Taliban rule in Afghanistan, saying five years of increasingly entrenched restrictions have demonstrated the need for greater international accountability rather than accommodation of the de
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For centuries, Afghanistan’s educational institutions stood at the crossroads of faith, scholarship, and intellectual inquiry, producing generations of jurists, poets, philosophers, scientists, and religious scholars whose influence reached far beyond the country’s
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Belgium has granted a one-day visa to a Taliban delegation invited to Brussels for migration discussions with European Union officials, allowing the group to enter the country but restricting travel beyond Belgian
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The German government has reached an agreement with the Taliban regime to accelerate the deportation of convicted Afghan criminals, according to German newspaper Bild. The arrangement, reached through “technical-level” negotiations because Berlin
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The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued a strong condemnation of Afghanistan’s de facto authorities following the adoption of a new decree that it says legitimises child marriage
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On Thursday, the European Parliament delivered its most forceful condemnation of the Taliban to date. Lawmakers voted 480 to five, with 83 abstentions, to demand expanded international sanctions against Taliban leaders, enforce International Criminal Court arrest
More The Taliban government in Afghanistan has introduced new legislation that effectively permits child marriage for girls as young as nine, drawing widespread condemnation from rights groups and international observers. The law links
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The European Union is facing growing controversy after confirming plans to host Taliban representatives in Brussels for technical discussions focused on migration and deportations. The move comes as anti-immigration policies gain momentum
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A group of teenage girls gathers quietly in front of a locked school gate in the western Afghan city of Herat. Some turn their backs to the camera, others cover their faces.
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I have been closely following the escalating conflict along the Pak-Afghan border, and the latest developments around the March 16, 2026 Pakistani airstrike in Kabul has left me deeply troubled, but also
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At least 400 people have been killed and around 250 others injured following reported airstrikes in Kabul, in what Afghan authorities describe as one of the deadliest incidents in the capital in
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Pakistan has declared an open military confrontation against Afghanistan following a series of cross-border attacks and retaliatory airstrikes. Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif announced on X that Islamabad’s tolerance had reached its
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On February 22, 2026, Pakistan carried out a series of predawn airstrikes across eastern and south-eastern Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of at least 18 civilians, including women and children, and leaving
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Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, was greeted like a celebrity during his recent visit to India—an extraordinary turn described in The New York Times as a striking departure from decades of
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