Taliban fighters search a vehicle at a checkpoint on the road in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul

Eastern Afghanistan Reduce Number of Traffic Fatalities

At least 33 people have died and 16 others have been injured in separate traffic crashes in eastern Afghanistan. Ten collisions occurred in the Sorabi district of Kabul province, causing 17 deaths, including two children and four women. Ten others...
Earthquake Afghanistan

Western Afghanistan Rattled by Another Powerful Earthquake

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan, causing thousands of deaths and flattened villages a week earlier. The latest quake, centered about 30 kilometers outside Herat, the capital of Herat province, is the fourth measured at 6.3 magnitude in the...
Afghanistan Earthquake

UN Food Agency’s Aid Distribution to Quake-Stricken Afghanistan

Kabul Aid workers have reached earthquake-stricken areas of western Afghanistan and distributed emergency food supplies to those affected. Rescue efforts continue after powerful earthquakes caused widespread destruction and killed over 2,000 people in the country's worst natural disaster in years....
Afghanistan

Police Eradicate Hashish Fields in Eastern Afghanistan

Jalalabad, Afghanistan The Afghan police have destroyed 23 acres of hashish in Nangarhar province and 2,070 acres in neighboring Paktia province. The operation began in Achin district and aims to prevent the cultivation of illegal crops. The Afghan caretaker government...
Taliban Afghanistan

Afghanistan is escalating into civil war due to factionalism between Taliban: Former Army chief

A former Afghan commander, Lieutenant General Haibatullah Alizai, has warned that Afghanistan is heading towards civil war due to the division of the Taliban into different factions. The country is becoming a haven for foreign terrorists, and Alizai believes that...
Drinking water crisis Afghanistan

Taliban interference hinders humanitarian aid beneficiaries in 2023

Kabul The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has identified Taliban interference in humanitarian aid as a significant obstacle in the distribution of aid to the Afghan people in need. SIGAR's quarterly report to the US Congress revealed...
jail

Afghan jails Many foreigners including US Citizens 

Kabul Many foreign nationals, including the United States, are held in prisons in Afghanistan. This information was given in a local media report on Monday citing a Taliban official. Without disclosing the exact number of foreigners imprisoned in Afghanistan, Zabihullah...
United Nations (UN)

Afghanistan Aid operations facing serious funding gap: UN

Kabul Afghanistan under Taliban rule, the United Nations has said that aid operations in Afghanistan are facing a serious funding gap, according to ToloNews. According to data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), less...
Taliban Afghanistan

Taliban first time after returning from Afghanistan

The US and the Taliban held talks in Doha for the first time since their withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. As Washington pressed the Taliban to roll back policies responsible for the deterioration of the human rights situation in...
Afghan refugees

Afghan refugees increase in number seeking permanent residence in UK

Kabul The process of transferring Afghan refugees living in the United Kingdom from hotels to permanent accommodation has been accelerated, TOLOnews has revealed. The British Home Office warned a few months ago that Afghans who had been taken to hotels...
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