Afghanistan
Women’s OIC conference in Pakistan sees Syrian delegation after 14 years
Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor, Hind Kabawat, led the delegation, as few Afghan women were represented in their fight for rights under Taliban rule.
Trump administration launches campaign to dismantle ICC efforts to infringe on US sovereignty
Jews face harassment in nearly 100 countries as global religious hostilities spike, Pew shows
Pakistani bus falls into roadside ditch, rescue agency reports 40 killed, 8 injured
Trump considering plan to send Afghan refugees who helped US to Congo - NYT
AfghanEvac President Shawn VanDiver criticized the move, describing it as giving the refugees a choice between "the world’s number one refugee crisis to the world’s number two refugee crisis.”
Taliban arrests senior co-founder Mullah Mutasim Agha Jan amid deepening internal rifts
Agha Jan, a close associate of the late Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, served as finance minister in the group’s first government prior to the 9/11 attacks.
Australian former soldier gets bail on Afghanistan war crime charges
Police arrested and charged Ben Roberts-Smith, 47, with five counts of war crimes last week over the murder of five unarmed Afghan civilians between 2009 and 2012.
Afghan women’s rights advocates urge Melania Trump to support girls facing Taliban restrictions
Over 100 Afghan women’s rights defenders have written to Melania Trump, urging her to help restore education and freedom to Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule.
Gas pipeline blown up in southern Pakistan by unknown assailants, says official
It suspended gas supply to several parts of the city and at least five more districts, the official said.
Afghan national jailed for 15 years in the UK for raping 12-year-old girl
Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was convicted after a trial at Warwick Crown Court of one count of raping a child under 13 in Nuneaton, central England, last July.
Afghanistan releases American detainee in an effort to improve Taliban, US relations
Dennis Coyle, an American citizen held in Afghanistan since authorities detained him at his Kabul home in 2025, is among the hundreds of Americans freed by the Trump administration.
Pakistan denies deadly Kabul hospital attack, says it struck Taliban military site
Conflicting accounts over a disputed airstrike leave questions about the target and reported civilian deaths unresolved.
Kabul rehab center bombed by Pakistan, death toll rises, families search for survivors
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has put the death toll at 143 in the bombing of a Kabul drug rehab centre by Pakistan, an official told Reuters on Wednesday.
Pakistani air strike devastates Kabul rehab center as survivor recalls 'doomsday' scene
The Afghan Taliban government says at least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in the Monday night attack, but Islamabad denied having targeted any such facility.
