Three Assailants Killed In Attack On Hotel In Kabul, Taliban Says
Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government said an attack on a hotel building in Kabul on December 12 ended with the killing of three attackers.
Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government said an attack on a hotel building in Kabul on December 12 ended with the killing of three attackers.
Zarifa Yaqobi, a women's rights activist who is a member of the Afghan Women's Movement for Equality, has been released from prison in Afghanistan.
At least six people were killed and 17 wounded in an armed clash between the Pakistani military and Taliban forces near the border area between the two countries.
This week's Gandhara Briefing brings you our reporting on Afghans preparing for another brutal winter under Taliban rule, rising malnutrition among Afghan children, and Pakistan ranking first in a new index measuring Chinese influence.
The UN humans rights chief Volker Turk said on December 9 that Afghan women and girls are being systematically excluded from virtually all aspects of life under the Taliban.
The China Index, a new database launched by Doublethink Labs to track China's global sway, ranks Pakistan as the country in which Beijing's influence is the strongest, with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan also making the top 10.
As schools above the sixth grade remain closed for girls in Afghanistan, teachers have been pleading with the Taliban to change their stance on allowing them to attend classes. In a call-in program broadcast by RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, Masooda Khurram Wardak, a school principal in Kabul, said on December 8 that teachers could put up with the absence of school supplies for students and even the requirement for girls to wear Islamic head scarves, but she urged authorities to "let girls get an education... Читать дальше...
Twenty-seven people have been lashed in public in the northern Afghan province of Parwan as punishment for alleged adultery, theft, drug offenses, and other crimes.
Afghans are preparing for another brutal winter under the rule of the Taliban. Aid groups fear that this winter could be even worse than the last as hunger and disease continue to rise. With food and energy prices surging, many Afghans face a choice between buying firewood to warm themselves or food to feed themselves.
Afghanistan's Taliban administration has carried out the death penalty of a man convicted of murder in the country's first public execution since the militants retook power in August last year.