Thousands of Afghans have moved to the UK under a secret scheme which was set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data, it can be revealed.
In February 2022, the personal details of nearly 19,000 people who had applied to move to (...)
The Pakistan army on Friday said it had killed at least 30 suspected militants during an attempted cross-border infiltration from Afghanistan into the tribal district of North Waziristan.
In an official statement, the military said the group was (...)
Germany wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban to take back Afghan nationals set for deportation, according to Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
"My idea is that we make agreements directly with Afghanistan to enable (...)
Russia has become the first nation to recognize the Taliban government of Afghanistan since it took power in 2021, announcing on Thursday it has accepted an ambassador from the Islamist group.
"We believe that the act of official recognition of the (...)
At least 13 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 24 others wounded, including 14 civilians, in a suicide bombing on Saturday targeting an army convoy in North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan, local media reported.
The attack occurred in (...)
"My preference will always be for peace and partnership," US President Donald Trump affirmed in Riyadh during the first foreign visit of his second term in office.
The US president was addressing a distinguished audience of the US-Saudi Investment (...)
Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago, the Associated Press reported.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 (...)
The Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, declared on Sunday that Afghanistan has no need for Western legal systems, asserting that Islamic sharia law is fully in effect and that democracy has ended in the country.
"There is no need for (...)
The United States has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban officials, including Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who also leads the Haqqani network, a group long blamed for deadly attacks against Afghanistan's former Western-backed (...)
An American airline mechanic has been freed by the Taliban after being held in Afghanistan for more than two years.
George Glezmann, who was detained in December 2022 while visiting as a tourist, arrived by plane in Qatar on Thursday evening before (...)
A British couple in their seventies have been arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were returning to their home in Bamiyan on 1 February when they were detained.
The couple have been running training (...)
Pakistani and Afghan border forces remained on high alert Sunday as the Torkham crossing, a key trade and transit route between the two countries, remained shut for a second consecutive day following a dispute over the construction of a new (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia condemned on Thursday the terrorist attacks in Kunduz province in northeastern Afghanistan and a ministry building in the Afghan capital.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed Saudi Arabia's condemnation and (...)
Shakoofa Khalili was waiting for her husband to return home with bread from the market when she heard their eight-year-old daughter scream from the balcony.
The girl had seen police approach her father in the street outside their safe house in (...)
"It's like the United States doesn't actually understand what I did for this country, it's a betrayal," Abdullah tells the BBC.
He fled Afghanistan with his parents amid the US withdrawal in August 2021 and is now a paratrooper for the US military. (...)
A senior Taliban figure has called on the group's leader to scrap education bans on women and girls in the country.
In a rare public rebuke of government policy, Sher Abbas Stanikzai said there are no excuses for the bans, according to the (...)
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country's women, the chief of a top aid agency has warned.
Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said women and girls were bearing the brunt of (...)
India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift in how it sees the geopolitical reality in the region.
This comes more than three years after India suffered a major strategic and diplomatic blow when (...)
The Afghan Taliban said bombardment by Pakistani military aircraft in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province on Tuesday killed at least 46 people, most of whom were children and women.
Six people were also injured in the bombing at four locations in (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia's embassy in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, announced on Sunday the resumption of its diplomatic activities after a hiatus of three years. "Based on the desire of the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to provide all (...)
The Taliban's refugee minister was killed in a suicide bombing carried out by ISIS in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, according to officials.
Khalil Haqqani is the uncle of current Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who leads the (...)
Women training as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have told the BBC they were ordered not to return to classes in the morning — effectively closing off their last route to further education in the country.
Five separate institutions across (...)
A 17-year-old who is not allowed to speak in public in her own country has won a prestigious international award for advocating for the rights of Afghan girls. Nila Ibrahimi won the International Children's Peace Prize on Tuesday, an award that has (...)
The Taliban will attend a UN climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the environment agency said on Sunday.
The conference, known as COP29, begins on Monday in Azerbaijan and is one of the most important (...)
The prime minister has told British nationals in Lebanon "now is the time to leave" after fighting intensified between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group that dominates the country.
Sir Keir Starmer said "we are ramping up the (...)
