On cold Friday night in Gurbuz District of Khost province, eight-year-old Ahmad sits quietly inside a dark cave, holding his younger sister close. Just days ago, they were in their home. Now, the cave...

A 9-year-old girl Baharat who was critically injured during Pakistani military shelling in Asadabad, Kunar province, on Saturday has died from her wounds, her family confirmed on Wednesday. She was se...

A reported Pakistani military strike hit Asadabad, the capital of Kunar province, on Sunday afternoon, killing one person and injuring 15 others, according to local officials. Muzaffar Mukhlis, head o...

The street market in the Afghan border town of Torkham in Nangrahar province has “gone silent.” Anxiety about the future is rising as trade halts and incomes dry up, a local shopkeeper tells Truthdig ...

Yesterday, on 20 March 2026, Afghanistan celebrated Nowruz, its New Year—a day traditionally filled with hope, renewal, and new beginnings. Today, 21 March, the country observes Farmer’s Day, honoring...

The smell of smoke still lingers in the air as men move silently through the rubble, lifting broken concrete with bare hands. Every few seconds, someone calls out a name. No one answers. Outside what ...

The death toll has risen sharply after a Pakistani airstrike struck a major drug addiction treatment hospital in Kabul late Monday evening, according to Taliban officials. Hamdullah Fitrat said the Pa...

Rescue operations are ongoing at a 1,000-bed drug treatment center in Kabul after it was hit by a Pakistani military airstrike Monday evening, local media report. Preliminary reports indicate that at ...

Pakistani forces carried out artillery attacks in eastern Afghanistan that killed civilians and damaged residential homes, according to Taliban officials and local media reports. Hamdullah Fitrat said...

A boys’ high school building in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province has been severely damaged after artillery shelling reportedly carried out by Pakistani forces, according to a local official. Ziaur...

When bombs fall on homes instead of battlefields, the victims are not Taliban. They are families. Mothers. Children. The latest Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan’s major cities, including Kabul and ...

Pakistani airstrikes struck key Afghan cities early Friday, killing civilians in the capital and hitting infrastructure in southern Afghanistan, officials and the United Nations said. The United Natio...

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Wednesday they carried out major retaliatory attacks against Pakistani military positions across the Durand Line, saying 55 Pakistani soldiers were killed, as te...

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Wednesday they carried out major retaliatory attacks against Pakistani military positions across the Durand Line, saying 55 Pakistani soldiers were killed, as te...

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education, under the control of the Taliban government, says eight school students were killed and one madrasa student was wounded in Pakistani airstrikes carried out overnig...

At least 17 civilians, including 11 children, were killed in a Pakistani airstrike on a farmer’s home in the Behsood district of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban authorities reported...

23 members of a single family were trapped under rubble following Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, with four recovered so far and the remaining still missing. The strikes took place at aro...

Afghan singer Latif Nangarhari said during a recent TikTok live broadcast that the Taliban system would last for fifty years while criticizing members of Afghanistan’s former republic government. In t...

Ahead of the T20 World Cup match against New Zealand, Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan spoke about the importance of women’s participation in cricket and broader opportunities for all Afghans. He expre...

It has been around 1,605 days since the Taliban, about one month after taking power in August 2021, issued the order banning girls above grade 6 from continuing their education — a ban that remains fi...

Two people were killed in two separate traffic incidents in Jalalabad city, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, according to Taliban local authorities. The Taliban-run Nangarhar Media Office sa...

Afghan cyclists traveling to represent their country at the 2026 Asian Road Cycling Championships in Saudi Arabia were denied entry at the airport, despite holding valid visas. The Afghanistan Cycling...

A video circulating widely on social media shows a 13-year-old Afghan girl being detained and forced to confess on camera by a Taliban member after she was discovered working while disguised in boys’ ...

Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Friday that Spain will never recognise the Taliban government as long as his administration is in power, emphasizing that this stance supports Afgh...

Afghanistan is “a country at a crossroads,” warned Georgette Gagnon, the UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and UNAMA Deputy Chief, as Taliban policies push the natio...

Taliban in Nangarhar say they have seized and destroyed 657 musical instruments, which belonged to local residents. In a statement released by the Taliban-run governor’s office In Nangrahar province, ...

Three months have passed since the Taliban imposed sweeping restrictions barring Afghan women staff and contractors from entering all United Nations premises across Afghanistan, the UN Women says. In ...

The Taliban executed a man in a public gathering in Khost Province on Tuesday, with an estimated 80,000 people present, according to the provincial governor’s office. The statement released by the Tal...

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice says it has detained a 70-year-old TikTok user known online as “Malak Akbar.” Saiful Islam Khyber, the ministry’s spokes...

Despite continued support from international organizations and repeated vaccination campaigns against polio, measles, pertussis, and other deadly diseases, many children in Uruzgan remain unvaccinated...

Thousands of Afghan nationals who fled the country after the Taliban takeover are now facing uncertainty after the U.S. government announced an indefinite suspension of all visa and immigration applic...

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has re-entered the public conversation with two lengthy statements posted on Facebook on 20 November and 27 November 2025, addressing what he describes as a critic...

In the southern provinces—Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, and Uruzgan—the presence of female journalists has fallen to zero. No woman is currently employed in any media institution across these provinces. M...

The Taliban government has accused Pakistan of carrying out airstrikes overnight in Khost, Kunar, and Paktika provinces, killing 10 civilians, including nine children and one woman. Taliban Spokespers...

One afternoon in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, 20-year-old Maryam slips through the alleyways with a notebook hidden beneath her scarf. She is heading to what looks like an ordinary home, but inside, ...

Haji Abdullah from Gereshk district in Helmand, who returned from Pakistan about 18 months ago, says his children have been unable to continue their education since coming back. “In Pakistan, all the ...

The Afghanistan Sports Journalists Federation (ASJF) has “strongly” condemned what it described as a “cowardly and unlawful” airstrike by Pakistan’s military regime in Paktika Province, which reported...

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has expressed deep sorrow and outrage following a deadly attack in Urgun District of Paktika Province that claimed the lives of three cricketers and several civilia...

Sources within the Afghanistan Cricket Board told The Afghan Times that eight local-level cricket players were killed and four others injured in Pakistani military airstrikes on Paktika province. Acco...

An Afghan journalist lost his life and another sustained injuries after Pakistani troops allegedly fired across the border in Afghanistan’s Khost province, local officials said. Authorities in Khost c...

An Afghan journalist lost his life and another sustained injuries after Pakistani troops allegedly fired across the border in Afghanistan’s Khost province, local officials said. Authorities in Khost c...

The Taliban have introduced yet another restriction on Afghan women, this time banning them from washing clothes, carpets, and household items at public water sources such as canals, ponds, and reserv...