The Latest Breaking News from Kabul

Female medics continue to save lives, but rely on the Red Cross to get by because the Taliban cannot pay their salaries

In their latest decree, the Taliban say it is ‘required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab’.

Women say they fear going out in public despite Taliban vow to respect hard-won rights after 2021 takeover

The Taliban on Saturday ruled Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group's supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women in public that is drawing a backlash from the international community and many Afghans. A spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of…

Former director of prosecution ‘terrified’ in immigration limbo in Pakistan

For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.

After fleeing Afghanistan, the five families — which have been sponsored by the Australian Olympic Committee — are desperately waiting for the Australian government to issue the visas.

More than 11,000 kilometres from Kabul, the Afghanistan National Women's team returns to the pitch.

The 22-year-old boasted to his Twitter followers about all the "amazing" food he bagged for just £20 before falling ill a few hours later

The ISIS extremist group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a passenger bus that killed one woman in Afghanistan's capital. Dozens of people have been killed and scores wounded in deadly attacks that have punctuated the last two weeks of the fasting month of Ramadan, which ends…

A bomb blast in a passenger van in Kabul on Saturday killed at least one person, officials said, in the second explosion in the Afghan capital in two days, as security concerns rise on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.