Afghanistan

The two-year-old Afghan boy named Navid, who sustained severe injuries from August's chaotic foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, has endured another week of uncertainty despite repeated reassurances of aid from British civil servants almost four months after the brutal attack.

Small-time pharmaceutical company Cpharm Australia found itself the focus of media attention after they were mistakenly cited as the firm that inked a $450-million deal with the Taliban regarding a cannabis processing plant.

Sharbat Gulla, a former Afghan refugee whose face was featured on National Geographic, is confirmed to have fled Afghanistan for Italy after the Taliban takeover of her country.

Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team touched down in Britain on Thursday after SKIMS founder Kim Kardashian West fully funded their plane tickets. The group had been stuck in Pakistan for weeks following their rescue out of Afghanistan.

Violence and unrest across Afghanistan under the Taliban rule reported since country’s takeover

American far-right commentator Ann Coulter has called former U.S. President Donald Trump "abjectly stupid," blatantly accusing him of betraying his voters after once endorsing him during his 2016 presidential bid.

Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August, locals saw a sharp rise in deaths due to starvation as the insurgents barely managed to bring stability to the war-torn country.

A senior official in the Pentagon warns that terrorist organizations in Afghanistan will be ready to attack the U.S. in six to twelve months if no international intervention is done.

Mahjubin Hakimi, the star athlete of a women's volleyball team in Afghanistan, was beheaded in early October as women's rights in Afghanistan are being rolled back.

Hundreds of Afghanistan nationals desperate to leave the Taliban rule reportedly stormed the Kabul passport office a day after it was announced that the office would reopen to issue travel documents.

A suspected bombing by the Islamic State on Sunday prompted the Taliban to respond with massive firepower killing an Islamic State cell in Kabul.

At least five civilians were savagely killed in a bomb blast at the entrance to a Kabul mosque on Sunday, a Taliban Taliban Interior Ministry official confirmed, describing it as the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since the withdrawal of U.S. troops at the end of August.

An elderly man has been accused of murdering and dismembering a 12-year-old Afghan girl with the help of his two daughters to sell her body parts in Police District 8 of Kabul, Afghanistan.

A former Bronx Uber driver who was busted for allegedly trying to join the Taliban has been labeled as merely a "wannabe playboy" by his own defense attorney at his opening trial on Wednesday, Sept. 29.

Fort Drum spokesperson Lt. Col. Josh Jacques said all three soldiers were unconnected, noting that they were not in the same unit and possibly have not known each other.

Mohammad Ashraf Ghairat revealed how a plan was underway to accommodate female students into the institution, which entailed training male teachers to teach female students from behind a curtain in classrooms.

As the return of a repressive government in Afghanistan is feared, a province in the country has forbidden men from shaving or trimming their beards.

In a gruesome display of brutality, the Taliban have left the dead bodies of four alleged kidnappers hanging from a crane parked in the heart of the Afghan city of Herat as the insurgents reinstate their hardline rule to serve as a lesson to other offenders.

An Afghan journalist has been shot twice in the leg during his commute home as international watchdogs hound the Taliban to protect the rights and lives of media men and women in the country.

India’s top anti-smuggling agency reportedly impounded nearly three tonnes of heroin originating from Afghanistan with a street value of around 200 billion rupees (US$2.72 billion) following last month's chaotic Taliban takeover of the country. 

More than a month since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, residents trapped in the wrecked country fear the Sunni Pashtun insurgents could “brainwash” locals under 18 years of age to turn them into suicide bombers and ambushers. 

As the Taliban enjoys Afghanistan by riding pedal boats across the lake of Band-e Amir National Park, women's rights across the country are being curtailed.

The line-up of Afghan interim government officials typically has senior positions seating former Guantanamo inmates as well as prominent members of a US-designated terror group.

A Florida woman was scammed of $25,000 when her online relationship claimed to be a soldier in Afghanistan and asked her to send money for his safe return.

A female Afghan prosecutor, who is accusing Taliban fighters of coercing vulnerable minors to plant bombs on Afghan streets and vehicles, has revealed she's counting her last remaining days after the insurgents threatened her an ultimatum letter for her work.

A former U.S. Army officer volunteering to rescue at-risk American and Afghan allies left behind in the war-torn country claimed that the extremists beheaded two boys, ages 9 and 10, in front of their Christian family as the Taliban persecute those acting against Islam.

An Afghan sniper, who served with the British special forces in Afghanistan during the 20-year foreign invasion, was reportedly tracked down and mercilessly executed by Taliban fighters in front of his family on Monday.

Taliban fighters have been accused of hunting an Afghan mother down and brutally murdering her in front of her family two days after she rallied and demanded better rights in the now Taliban-controlled country.

The Taliban has announced the reinstatement of its Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, declaring the return of amputations, public stonings, and the executions of criminals who commit “major sins of Islam.”

Save the Children ambassador Jennifer Garner has been doing her part to amplify the voices of Afghan refugees following her recent visit to Dulles Airport to meet the children and families recently rescued out of the now Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.