Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people.
Three were marched bent double into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a wheelchair. All were charged with committing an act of terrorism.
The (...)
At least 21 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a doctor at the regional hospital has told the BBC.
The Taliban government has put the death toll at three. Police said a number of others were (...)
Dozens of archeological sites in Afghanistan have been bulldozed to allow systematic looting, according to researchers at the University of Chicago.
They say their analysis of satellite photos provides the first definitive photographic evidence that (...)
On an autumn day in 1576, a Mughal princess led a cohort of royal women on an unprecedented voyage to the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah.
It was the first time in Mughal India that a woman had gone on the sacred pilgrimage called the Hajj that is (...)
A stone's throw from the US border and around the corner from Tijuana's seedy red-light district, Afghan families say they feel safe inside a first of its kind Muslim-only shelter.
But they are afraid to wander far outside, traumatised by their (...)
About 200 members of Afghan special forces, trained and funded by the UK, face imminent deportation to their Taliban-controlled homeland, the BBC has learned.
The figures — gathered by a network of Afghan veterans — reveal the scale of what one (...)
The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) and humanitarian partners are providing critical aid at border crossing points between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the face of a surge in forced returns of Afghan nationals.
According to IOM, in (...)
Thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan have raced to the border to beat a Wednesday deadline for undocumented foreigners to leave the country.
Pakistan says 1.7 million such people must leave by 1 November or face arrest and deportation. Most are (...)
Families in western Afghanistan, who have lost everything to a series of devastating earthquakes, need urgent assistance to withstand the harsh winter, the UN relief wing reported on Friday.
Temperatures have already started to drop into single (...)
Another earthquake has hit western Afghanistan just days after two large quakes in the same region killed more than 1,000 people.
The new 6.3 magnitude quake struck at around 05:10 local time (00:40 GMT) on Wednesday, 28km (17 miles) north of the (...)
Nearly 500 people are still missing from the worst-affected area of a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that rocked Herat province in western Afghanistan on Saturday, UN aid coordinators said on Tuesday.
At the epicenter of the earthquake in Zindajan (...)
China has become the first country to name an ambassador to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in 2021.
The Taliban says Zhao Xing's appointment is a sign for other nations to establish ties with its government.
Analysts say the move shows how (...)
"After the Taliban shut universities for women, my only hope was to get a scholarship which would help me study abroad," says 20-year-old Afghan student Natkai.
Natkai's name has been changed for her own safety.
The Taliban have cracked down hard on (...)
The Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan province.
Afghanistan's acting Minister of Virtue and Vice Mohammad Khaled Hanafi said women had not been observing hijab inside the park.
He called on (...)
Taliban fighters have committed hundreds of extrajudicial killings since taking power in Afghanistan in 2021, despite a "general amnesty" meant to protect the previous government, according to the United Nations.
In a report released Tuesday, the (...)
In her university room in Bangladesh, Nina, 19, holds her boxing gloves up to her face, staring into the mirror.
She is learning to protect herself. She says there is no other way. Nina is one of hundreds of Afghan women who have taken up the offer (...)
The UN fund that ensures children can continue learning during emergencies and protracted crises, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), launched a campaign on Tuesday to elevate the voices of young Afghan girls deprived of their basic right to (...)
In his 1974 novel Tamas (Darkness), a vivid portrayal of the bloody partition of India, author Bhisham Sahni vividly depicts the atmosphere changing in a violence-wracked village, as an airplane circles above it thrice.
"People ventured out. The (...)
The US has urged Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to "reverse policies responsible for the deteriorating human rights situation" in the country, particularly for women, girls, and "vulnerable communities".
It also pressed for the release of detained US (...)
The multiple restrictions placed on women and girls by Afghanistan's de facto rulers are costing the Taliban "both domestic and international legitimacy" and are highly unpopular across the country, said the top UN official based there on (...)
An explosion inside a mosque in northeast Afghanistan has caused multiple casualties.
Reports say several local Taliban officials were among those killed or wounded.
A local official said the blast happened during funeral prayer for the deputy (...)
Nearly 80 primary school students, mostly girls, are suspected to have been poisoned over the weekend and taken to hospital in Afghanistan's Sangcharak district, Mohammad Rahmani, the head of the Education Department in the northern Sar-e-Pul (...)
A "large-scale" outbreak of the Moroccan Locust, one of the world's most damaging plant pests, across eight provinces in Afghanistan's wheat basket, could cause massive crop losses and "dramatically" worsen food insecurity.
The UN's Food and (...)
The use of corporal punishment by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan runs counter to international law and must stop, the UN Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA), said on Monday.
"Corporal punishment is a violation of the Convention (...)
Three-month-old Tayabullah is quiet and motionless. His mother Nigar moves the oxygen pipe away from his nose and puts a finger below his nostrils to check if she can feel him breathing.
She begins to cry as she realises her son is fading.
At this (...)