CNN

First on CNN: 2 Americans held by the Taliban have been released, sources tell CNN

Two Americans who had been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been released and are en route to Qatar, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Two of the sources tell CNN that one of ...
Forbes

A Malnutrition Tragedy Averted In Afghanistan

Treated for severe acute malnutrition at a UNICEF health clinic last year, 5-year-old Parwana is now excited to go to school. Her family still struggles to get by. Five-year-old Parwana, successfully ...
The Washington Post

Afghanistan in 2022: Photos from a year of Taliban rule

In the year since the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan, Taliban leaders have moved quickly to reshape the country. The Taliban takeover ended two decades of war, but it has also ...
New York Post

Taliban stages first public execution since retaking Afghanistan

The Taliban put a murder suspect to death Wednesday, the fundamentalist regime’s first official public execution since retaking control of Afghanistan last year. The man accused of a fatal stabbing in ...
Save the Children

Afghanistan Tops List of 7 Countries Where Children Were Most in Need in 2022

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Dec. 20, 2022) — The number of children needing humanitarian assistance rose more than 20% this year to 149 million, with Afghanistan then the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) most ...
UPI

Taliban release American detained in Afghanistan since 2022

March 20 (UPI) --George Glezmann, a Delta Airlines mechanic detained by the Taliban during a trip to Afghanistan in 2022, was on his way back to the United States on Thursday, both Washington and ...
CNN

Taliban suspend university education for women in Afghanistan

The Taliban government has suspended university education for all female students in Afghanistan, the latest step in its brutal clampdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women. A spokesman for ...
The Diplomat

World Continues to Fail Afghanistan as Another Freezing Winter Sets in

Afghanistan has been in the news for all the wrong reasons ever since the Taliban overran Kabul on August 15, 2021. The Taliban formed a government that still remains unrecognized by the international ...
Forbes

Without Women, Afghanistan Has No Future

In December 2022, the Taliban, the de facto authority in Afghanistan, banned women from public and private universities until further notice. Reportedly, this decision was partly due to female ...
Los Angeles Times

A year in, the Taliban escalates its war against girls’ education in Afghanistan

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — When Zahra Wafa thinks about what it took to put her daughters through school, her face hardens. She remembers the days she and her husband ate only bread to afford their ...
NPR

Afghans are bracing for a winter many fear will be even worse than the last

KABUL — Every couple of weeks, 50-year old Mari Jaan joins hundreds of other Afghans in a long food line, where she waits for a few modest items: a jug of cooking oil, bags of flour, lentils, salt.