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NGO: ‘Hundred skilled, wounded’ in Kabul drug clinic strike

KABUL – The Norwegian Refugee Council on Wednesday said hundreds of people were killed and wounded in this week’s Pakistani air strike on a...

Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of deadly airstrike in Kabul

KABUL – Heavy casualties were feared on Tuesday after Afghanistan accused Pakistan of hitting a treatment center for drug addicts in the capital, Kabul,...

Rituals of resilience: How Afghan women remain sane in their ‘cage’

KABUL – They feel imprisoned “like a bird whose wings have been torn off” but struggle on, defiant in their own way. Five Afghan women...

Blasts in Kabul amid Afghan border battles

KABUL – AFP journalists in Kabul heard multiple explosions and gunfire on Tuesday, as Afghan and Pakistani troops keep up their border battles. The blasts...

Afghans shoot at Pakistani aircraft

KABUL, Afghanistan ­— An explosion followed by successive gunfire were heard in central Kabul on Sunday, AFP journalists reported, with the Taliban government saying...

Afghan film opens Berlin festival, questions men under Taliban

Are there any good men in Afghanistan? The opening film at this year’s Berlin Film Festival poses the question against the backdrop of the...

Afghan resistance museum revamp in Taliban rule

HERAT, Afghanistan – An Afghan who fought against Soviet forces still visits a museum celebrating the resistance, but, in keeping with rules by the...

Pakistan-Afghanistan talks to resume

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold another round of peace talks in Istanbul next week and will maintain a ceasefire until then, Turkey’s...

‘Heavy clashes’ at tense border, say Taliban

KABUL – Afghanistan’s Taliban forces launched armed reprisals against Pakistani soldiers along the shared border on Saturday, accusing Islamabad of carrying out air strikes...

Powerful quake aftershocks cause more deaths, injuries in Afghanistan

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – A series of strong aftershocks from a deadly earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan at the weekend injured at least another 10...

Hope dwindles for survivors days after deadly Afghan quake

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – Hope faded Wednesday of finding survivors in the rubble of homes devastated by the weekend’s powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, as...

Long-awaited pension payments for retirees

KABUL – After a four-year suspension, the Taliban government has announced it would resume pension payments for Afghanistan’s nearly 150,000 retired military and civil...

Families forever scarred 4 years after air crash

KABUL, Afghanistan – The day after the Taliban stormed into the Afghan capital in August 2021, Afghans desperate to evacuate clung to the fuselage...

Afghan women risk Taliban wrath over hair trade

KABUL—Until Taliban authorities took power in Afghanistan, women like Fatima were able to freely sell their hair to be made into wigs, bringing in...
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