AFGHANISTAN

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake has rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and offices.

Afghanistan under the Taliban is the only country in the world to bar teenage girls from school, but even boys appeared unaware of Tuesday's start date.

Police have arrested the first Australian veteran for an alleged murder in Afghanistan three years after a war crime investigation found that 19 Australian special forces soldiers could face charges for illegal conduct during the conflict

Police have charged the first Australian veteran with murder for a killing in Afghanistan three years after a war crimes investigation found 19 Australian special forces soldiers could face charges for illegal conduct.

Afghanistan's Islamist leader says officials should replace appointed sons or nephews and hire other workers.

Sen. Grassley says the State Department has found only $19k out of $40 million 'questioned costs' surrounding Afghanistan aide was allowable, over 2 years from a watchdog's damning report

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for independent recommendations on how a united international community should address the enormous challenges confronting Afghanistan.

ISIS-K terrorists in Afghanistan could carry out an attack against U.S. interests and Western allies within six months "with little-to-no warning," a top U.S. commander says.

Between 2,400 and 2,700 Afghans hoping to resettle in the West have been stuck in the "Emirates Humanitarian City" for more than 15 months, the report says.

Pakistan’s military says security forces have attacked a militant hideout near the Afghan border, prompting a shootout that killed eight of the insurgents and two children

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing over the weekend at a cultural center run by the minority Shiite community in northern Afghanistan

Media outlets spent International Women’s Day on Wednesday equating women’s rights issues in Iran and Afghanistan with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Police in Afghanistan say a bomb has exploded during an award ceremony for journalists in Mazar-e- Sharif city, killing at least one person and wounded five others

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a fatal attack on the senior Taliban governor and two others in Afghanistan. Abdul Haq al-Khorasani was the assailant.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for killing the governor of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province in a suicide bombing at his office

Pakistan’s foreign minister says his country is facing “a perfect storm” of troubles — an economic crisis, the consequences of catastrophic flooding and terrorism “that is once again rearing its ugly head” as a result of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

Two Gold Star mothers demanded accountability from the Biden admin. over the U.S. exit from Afghanistan after a Marine's emotionally testimony of the withdrawal.

Muhammad Dawood Muzamil is one of the highest-ranked Taliban officials killed since the group took over the country in August 2021.

Police say a Taliban-appointed provincial governor and two others have been killed by a bomb.

A Congressional inquiry into the 2021 withdrawal hears emotional testimony from a bomb victim.

The Marine sergeant, who survived a terrorist bombing on the Abbey gate at the Kabul airport in 2021, recounted chaos and atrocities he witnessed. Veterans urged Congress to help those left behind.

Active-service members and veterans have provided first-hand testimony in the House of Representatives about the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, describing in harrowing detail the carnage and death they witnessed on the ground.

Actor Nazanin Boniadi is urging the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women’s rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing “more than a free and politically active woman.”

The United Nations said Afghanistan is the most repressive country for women’s rights in the world, citing their methodical efforts to restrict their education.

"Afghanistan has become a prison for women," one activist told CBS News, "and the world is just watching."

Hundreds of thousands of people will be taking part in demonstrations, rallies, and events around the globe to mark International Women’s Day, the day established to celebrate and demand equality for half of the planet´s population

The first House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing will dive into the "stunning failure" of the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

Hundreds of thousands of people will be taking part in demonstrations, rallies, and events around the globe to mark International Women´s Day, the day established to celebrate and demand equality for half of the planet´s population

On Wednesday I will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on our botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. I'll mention the country's collapse and the impact it's had.

The United Nations says that since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country has become the most repressive in the world for women and girls

The United Nations says that since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country has become the most repressive in the world for women and girls.

U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said in a speech before International Women's Day that decades of advances on women’s rights are being wound back.

The U.N. chief says that women’s rights are being “abused, threatened and violated” around the world and that gender equality won’t be achieved for 300 years on the current track

A leading international rights group is appealing for the U.N. Human Rights Council to address the ongoing “relentless abuses” by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers

Adjusting to life in America is difficult for Afghan women who used to be journalists.

Years of poor oversight, a U.S.-Taliban accord in 2020 and an "abrupt" U.S. military withdrawal contributed to the rapid fall of Kabul to the Taliban, a special inspector general's report says.

Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks during separate raids in Kabul

Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks during separate raids in Kabul.

Biden officials are facing a deadline for providing documents relating to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan this week. Republicans in Congress requested the information.

Since Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban, girls have been prohibited from attending school beyond sixth grade. SOLA, the School of Leadership Afghanistan, is still teaching its students, though, after a daring evacuation to safety.

Hundreds of Afghan refugees facing extreme delays in the approval of U.S. visas are protesting in Pakistan’s capital on, as an American program to help relocate at-risk Afghans fleeing Taliban rule stalls

Hundreds of Afghan refugees facing extreme delays in the approval of U.S. visas are protesting in Pakistan’s capital on, as an American program to help relocate at-risk Afghans fleeing Taliban rule stalls.

Afghanistan IG John Sopko says the US needs more aid to Ukraine as America spends $113 billion helping fend off Russia's attacks

An opera based on the popular novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns," which is set in Afghanistan, is making its world debut in Seattle.

The December ban on college education for women has led some to turn to online options. But that pption comes with its own set of problems.

Abdul and Mohammed Ahmed Rabbani were arrested in Pakistan in 2002. They were never charged by the US.

U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba have returned two Pakistani brothers to their home country.

The Russian president and deposed leader of Afghanistan were among the top gift givers to the Bidens in 2021, according to federal documents.

Russia's president and the deposed leader of Afghanistan were among the top gift givers to President Joe Biden and his family in 2021, according to federal documents.

Officials say Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have reopened the key Torkham border crossing with Pakistan after keeping it shut for four days

The main crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan is closed for the third straight day. This comes after gunfire was exchanged between Taliban rulers and Pakistani border guards.

The main crossing on the Afghan-Pakistan border remained shut Tuesday for the third straight day, officials said, after Afghanistan's Taliban rulers earlier this week closed the key trade route and exchanged fire with Pakistani border guards. The closure has added to increasing tensions between the two neighboring countries and concerns for traders, for whom the Torkham crossing is a key commercial artery.

Bulgarian police say they have discovered 43 migrants, including ten children, hidden in a van in the west of the country

Officials say Pakistani border guards and Afghan Taliban forces have exchanged fire at a key border crossing in northwestern Pakistan

Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., sounds the alarm on the threat posed by ISIS forces rebuilding in the aftermath of President Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

Afghanistan’s new rulers are replacing civil rights with ‘God’s law,’ by gutting the justice system and packing the jails.

Kabul security forces have arrested the man allegedly behind the killing of former Afghan female lawmaker Mursal Nabizada. Officials say the man confessed to the crime earlier this year.

One of several senior figures to take a jab at the supreme leader was the head of the Haqqani network, who said the "situation cannot be tolerated any longer."

House Oversight Committee Republicans are ramping up their probe into the Biden administration's deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan and demanding accountability for "strategic failures."

The Taliban have already greatly restricted women's rights in Afghanistan, banning women from higher education and restricting access to public areas such as gyms and parks.

The House GOP is using its new majority oversight power to seek information on what it called a "disastrous" U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Several Biden Cabinet members have received a letter from House Republicans as they launch the second investigation into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

China and Iran have called on mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women's work and education.

A rare public show of division is emerging in the ranks of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.

Hundreds of Afghans have rushed to the Kabul airport chasing a false rumor that an airlift operation was flying people to Turkey to help with the deadly earthquake rescue.

Many refugees and asylum-seekers are literally left out in the cold for months as the European Union fails to get its migration system working properly.

The Dutch government says it will not appeal a court ruling that Dutch forces unlawfully bombed a residential complex in Afghanistan in 2007, killing some 20 civilians, in a civil case.

The Pakistani city of Peshawar was once known as “the city of flowers” but has borne the brunt of rising militancy in the region for the past decades.

A spokesman for the World Food Program says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs with half the country enduring severe hunger throughout the year.

The highest-ranking woman at the United Nations says she used everything in her “toolbox” during meetings with Taliban ministers to try to reverse their crackdown on Afghan women and girls.

Police say a former Afghan female lawmaker and her bodyguard were shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in the capital, Kabul.

The Taliban's ban on female aid workers is posing one of the biggest policy challenges over Afghanistan for the United States and other countries since the American military withdrawal in 2021 opened the door for the Taliban takeover.

An aid agency chief has told The Associated Press that the Taliban's “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan.

The U.N. says one of its top officials has met with the Taliban-led government's higher education minister, who ordered a ban on women in Afghan universities last month.

The Afghan Taliban have killed eight Islamic State group fighters and arrested nine others in raids against the militants' hideouts in Afghanistan.

The U.N. says one of its top officials in Afghanistan has met the Taliban's deputy prime minister to discuss a ban on women working at nongovernmental groups.

A spokesman for the Taliban-led government says a bombing at a military airport checkpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed and wounded several people.

Thousands of refugees who fled Afghanistan and now live in the United States are facing an uncertain future.

Aid agencies are warning that Afghans will die because of the Taliban order banning women from working at nongovernmental groups.

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has ordered all foreign and domestic non-governmental groups to suspend employing women.

Eight U.S. military bases that housed tens of thousands of Afghan refugees after they were airlifted out of Kabul last year incurred almost $260 million in damages.

The minister of higher education in the Taliban government broke his silence over his decision to ban women from universities.

Taliban security forces in Afghanistan's capital city are upholding a higher education ban for women by blocking access to university campuses.

The Taliban have released two American detainees held in Afghanistan.

Pakistani authorities say one person was killed and at least 11 injured when Afghan Taliban fighters fired mortars toward the civilians near the southwestern Chaman border crossing.

China has advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country “as soon as possible,” following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul.

A Taliban official says a hotel catering to foreign visitors in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul was attacked and three of the assailants were killed.

Batool Haidari was a prominent professor of sexology at a university in Kabul before last year’s Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

The CIA Officers Memorial Foundation provides college tuition and other expenses to children of fallen officers.

The State Department says it has added four top commanders from a key anti-Pakistan militant group and its al-Qaida branch to its list of "global terrorists.”.

A Taliban official says that at least 10 students were killed when a bomb blast hit a religious school in northern Afghanistan.

A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions.

An Afghan Supreme Court official says 19 people were lashed in the country's northeast after being convicted of adultery, theft and running away from home.

A Taliban official says women are banned from using gyms in Afghanistan.

A U.K.-based nonprofit says the Taliban captured, bound, and shot 27 men to death in Afghanistan's Panjshir province last month as part of their operations against resistance forces in the area.

The German government is launching a new program to help to bring about 1,000 people who are at risk of persecution in Afghanistan to Germany each month.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $1.2 billion to efforts aimed at ending polio worldwide.

Officials say strong winds are hampering efforts around two Greek islands to find at least 10 migrants believed to be missing after back-to-back shipwrecks left 23 people dead.

Survivors from a migrant boat that hit rocks and smashed to pieces off a southern Greek island say the omens for their journey were bad from the offset in Turkey.

A suicide bomber has struck at a center of Taliban power, setting off a blast at a government ministry building in the Afghan capital of Kabul.