The Latest Breaking News from Martin Griffiths

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered NGOs not to allow most female employees to work, prompting many aid agencies…

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said.

Despite a six-month UN-brokered truce ending in October, fighting has not escalated.

The U.S. and U.N. are halting aid as the Taliban ratchet up their atrocities.

Both the transport group's chief executive and chief financial officer are stepping down

’Without women working, we can’t deliver for the people who are in fact the primary objects of humanitarian assistance’

Standoff between UN and Taliban may lead loss of billions in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths will visit Afghanistan in the coming weeks and seek to meet the highest possible officials within the Taliban-led administration after it banned female aid workers, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday.

‘Female staff are key to every aspect of the humanitarian response in Afghanistan,’ UN agencies and aid groups said.

An exemption to allow the United Nations and aid groups to deal with sanctioned Taliban leaders to meet the humanitarian and basic human needs of the Afghan people has helped save lives, the U.N. aid chief told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.

United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday it was unlikely the Black Sea grain deal would be expanded in the near term to include more Ukrainian ports or reduce inspection times.