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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan policeman opened fire on us with his AK-47, emptying 26 bullets into the back of the car. Seven slammed into me, and at least as many into my colleague, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus. → Read More
A new Taliban decree that demands women cover up from head to toe in public, showing at most their eyes, has left many Afghans angry or fearful → Read More
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding as many as 30, a Taliban spokesman said. → Read More
A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school → Read More
Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted news of the devastating bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, saying it also wounded another 43 people, many of them students. → Read More
Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted news of the devastating bombing in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province, saying it also wounded another 43 people, many of them students. → Read More
Friday's bombing is the latest in a series of deadly attacks across Afghanistan. Nobody has claimed responsibility for this bombing. → Read More
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s parliament elected opposition lawmaker Shahbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister on Monday, after a walkout by lawmakers from ousted Premier Imran Khan’s party.Sharif was the only contender. → Read More
Pakistan’s political opposition has toppled Prime Minister Imran Khan in a no-confidence vote in Parliament after several political allies and a key party in his ruling coalition deserted him → Read More
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s political opposition toppled Prime Minister Imran Khan in a no-confidence vote in Parliament early Sunday after several political allies and a key party in his ruling coalition deserted him. → Read More
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have announced a ban on poppy production, even as farmers across the country began harvesting the bright red flower that produces the opium used to make heroin → Read More
GENEVA (AP) — The U. N. ’s aid coordination agency is launching its biggest-ever appeal for funds for a single country in hopes of collecting $4. 4 billion to help Afghanistan. The decidedly ambitious call to assist the impoverished country again run by Taliban militants comes as much of the world is focused on Russia’s war in Ukraine. Afghanistan is buckling under a debilitating humanitarian… → Read More
The move may have been designed to appease the Taliban’s hard-line base but it came at the expense of further alienating the international community. → Read More
The decision is likely to disrupt Taliban efforts to win recognition from potential international donors amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. → Read More
The head of the U.N. refugee agency is in Kabul to tell Afghans they have not been forgotten — even as the international community scrambles to deal with the devastation of the war in Ukraine and a humanitarian crisis unseen in Europe since World War II → Read More
Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule → Read More
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's former president on Sunday called a White House order to unfreeze $3. 5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U. S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people. Former President Hamid Karzai at a packed news conference sought the help of Americans, particularly the families of the thousands killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to… → Read More
Afghanistan’s former president has called a White House order to unfreeze $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of 9/11 victims an atrocity against the Afghan people → Read More
Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital have condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims → Read More
President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order on Friday to move some $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the U.S. banking system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. → Read More