Kabul, Afghanistan — AFP In a frenzy of needlework, a den of Afghan tailors fashion customized suits for Eid-al-Fitr, with bejewelled outfits adding vital sparkle to muted celebrations of the Muslim holiday. At the Crystal Siddiqui shop in northern Kabul, tailors have worked 19-hour days in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, creating 5,0...
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan — AFP American traveller Oscar Wells is in Afghanistan for sight-seeing promoted by the Taliban. “It is a unique place, it touches my heart,” the 65-year-old Indiana farmer shared, praising “its magnificent mountains” with “people living in the old way”. Marvelling at the 15...
Congress has approved an additional 12,000 Special Immigrant Visas for nationals of Afghanistan who helped the US during its two-decades-long war there. But advocates say more visas are needed, noting that the current number falls short by 20,000 through this program. Called Operation Allies Welcome, it offers these Afghans a path to permane...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A suicide bombing in Afghanistan killed three people and injured 12 others on Thursday, according to police. Police official Asadullah Jamshid told Kabul-based Tolo News that the bomber exploded near a branch of Kabul Bank in the southern Kandahar city. Many people were gathered outside the bank building when the incident happe...
Kabul, Afghanistan – – AFP Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year on Wednesday, with girls still remaining out of secondary-level classes for a third year in a row. Taliban authorities barred girls from secondary school in March 2022, after surging back to power in 2021 following the end of decades long US [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kabul summoned the top Pakistani diplomat in the country on Monday after Pakistan launched pre-dawn air strikes inside Afghanistan that killed at least eight people, an official statement said. Interim Afghan Foreign Ministry said Kabul lodged a protest with Islamabad over the attacks. Earlier on Monday, interim Afghan ad...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistani military aircraft struck homes in two provinces of Afghanistan in pre-dawn attacks on Monday, interim Afghan spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said. Kabul said its forces retaliated against the airstrikes by hitting Pakistani military installations. Condemning the attacks, Mujahid said eight people, three children an...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Afghanistan is one of several countries around the world in the grip of a food crisis, where a mix of politics, economics and nature’s ravages is taking a heavy toll on vast sections of a vulnerable population. In a country emerging from decades of war and turmoil, women and children are among […]
GENEVA (AA) – The UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan has urged the international community to demand “progress” on the rights situation in the war-torn country still reeling from years of US-NATO occupation that ended with the Taliban taking power in August 2021. Responding to the question o...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least five bodies were retrieved from mud after a landslide buried houses in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday. The landslide hit at least 20 houses in the Tatin village of the Nurgram district in the eastern Nuristan province, the Kabul-based Hurriyat Radio English reported. Efforts to recover others are [...
