VIENNA - Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, long the world's dominant supplier of the raw material for heroin, has risen ...

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan spiked by 19 per cent in 2024, covering an estimated 12,800 hectares despite a ban imposed ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Maldives said in a statement on November 3 that the recent meeting between Mohamed Thoha, ...

Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they were aware the Maldives government had recalled its ambassador to Pakistan after he met with the Afghan Taliban government's top diplomat in Islamabad without ...

All the ways the Taliban are restricting lives of women in Afghanistan - Afghan women cannot be heard in public, even if it ...

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reports rising civilian casualties, security incidents, and new restrictions affecting women in its latest quarterly report on Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's Taliban government said Thursday it had repatriated two killed and several wounded in "explosions and gunfire" in Iran in mid-October, adding it was still investigating the deaths after ...

A Taliban spokesman says explosions and gunfire in Iran targeted and killed at least two Afghans earlier this month ...

This ban is a continuation of the Taliban's extensive restrictions on women's rights, aiming to reduce their public ...

A report by Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, was released Monday to the ... Bennett is set to present the findings of his report to the United Nations General ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has issued a new edict prohibiting women from reciting the Quran aloud, even in the presence ...

The nonprofit group Ladies Let's Talk offers free basic English classes for female refugees from Afghanistan, the first step ...