Afghanistan

WASHINGTON — Journalists in Afghanistan are facing a new requirement from the Taliban’s Ministry of Information and Culture to register and obtain identification cards in order to verify their identities and…

A rights watchdog said Wednesday that human rights in Afghanistan, especially those of women and girls, should be at the center of a U.N. Security Council-mandated independent assessment of the…

Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West and Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights Rina Amiri will travel to Astana, Kazakhstan and Doha, Qatar July 26-31. While in…

The Taliban may have achieved a diplomatic win in an agreement to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan, analysts said, but implementation of the project still faces challenges. “The…

Lack of donor funding is the No. 1 problem hindering humanitarian response efforts in Afghanistan, where 28 million people are in dire need of assistance, aid experts say. Funding levels…

The table is set for the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast to remain a geopolitical hotspot, as important as it is distant.  Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), eastern Tajikistan, is many things. It…

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari expressed his country’s objectives with the neighboring nation in conversation via telephone with acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, according to a Twitter post by the…

The fourth meeting of the neighboring states on Afghanistan was hosted by Uzbekistan on April 13 in Samarkand. Those who attended were the foreign ministers of Russia, China, Pakistan, and…

The situation for women and girls in Afghanistan has severely worsened since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021. The new regime has banned girls from middle school, high school and universities as…

The Taliban have always had a complicated relationship with the opium trade. As a narcotic, opium is haram, or forbidden under Islamic law. But at the same time opium production has tended…