Eight-year-old Halima was devastated to learn that after overcoming numerous obstacles to her education under Taliban rule, her path to learning had been blocked with the closure of her private school ...

SHAHID NASERI SAVEH, Iran (UNHCR) - For more than a decade, home-going had been out of the question for Afghan refugees at Iran's Shahid Naseri Saveh camp. "There's still a war going on in Afghanistan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan reporters recognized the voice threatening them with death on the Islamic State group's local radio station. It was a former colleague, who knows their names and ...

At least 1,000 people were killed after a strong earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, a government spokesperson said. The magnitude 6.1 quake struck a remote and mountainous area ...

ROME, Dec. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Crisis Response Initiative (CRI) set up by the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to protect livelihoods and mitigate the impacts of ...

Education has been touted as an “island of success” in the sea of hubris and corruption that was our misadventure in Afghanistan. Progress in education had been viewed as a sign of hope and cited as a ...

ERAQ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Shi'ite farm women in a remote Afghan valley shrugged off a new law that has created an international uproar about their rights, saying it largely reflects the reality of ...

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AFGHANISTAN, September 25, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Atticus Publishing proudly presents "One Life: An Afghan Remembers," a memoir by Abdul Qayum Safi, continues to ...

OMAHA (AP) -- Fresh off visits to the White House and Boston University, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was in Nebraska on Wednesday to personally thank U.S. troops and take in a bit of life on a ...