30 Jun 2020 17:00
Coronavirus overwhelms Afghanistan’s war-ravaged hospitals
As coronavirus spreads in Afghanistan, the cracks in the country's healthcare system - already weakened by decades of war - are starting to show. BBC Pakistan and Afghanistan Correspondent Secunder Kermani reports on the country's worsening Covid-19 crisis.
26 Jun 2020 18:08
'There hasn't been rehabilitation': Afghanistan struggles with fate of 'Daesh wives'
The Afghan government is facing hard decisions over the futures of hundreds of detained radicalised women and their children.
24 Jun 2020 17:58
Afghanistan’s missing coronavirus patients: Women
High coronavirus infection rates among health workers – and lopsidedly low numbers among women – are raising fears that Afghan women are missing out on healthcare while their exposure to the virus goes undetected.
![News media flourished in Afghanistan after the 2001 fall of armed group the Taliban, which had banned television [Omar Sobhani/Reuters]](/images/docs/000093/n00093207-s.jpg "News media flourished in Afghanistan after the 2001 fall of armed group the Taliban, which had banned television [Omar Sobhani/Reuters]")
25 Jun 2020 17:49
Afghan media reject new rules they say could hurt press freedom
Proposed amendment to law would require journalists to reveal sources to government bodies including security agencies.
11 May 2020 16:23
Afghanistan cricketer Shafiqullah Shafaq gets six-year ban for corruption
The Afghanistan wicketkeeper-batsman Shafiqullah Shafaq has been given a six-year ban after he accepted four charges of breaching their anti-corruption code.
10 May 2020 13:48
Afghanistan fears coronavirus may be more deadly than violence after 18 years of civil war
Afghanistan is particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 after decades of war smashed the country's health systems and now millions of migrant workers are returning from Iran to all provinces in the country.
2 May 2020 14:14
This ‘hospital needs to be quarantined,’ but Afghanistan is at war
Even when their city was repeatedly overrun by the Taliban and fighting reached their doorsteps, the doctors and nurses in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz kept working. They dressed wounds and saved lives at the main government hospital even as a nearby trauma center was bombed, killing more than ...
30 Apr 2020 14:19
Women and Girls With Disabilities at High Risk of Harassment in Afghanistan Due to COVID-19
Human Rights Watch released a new report detailing abuse in cities across the country.
28 Apr 2020 13:14
Afghanistan: Women with Disabilities Face Systemic Abuse
Afghan women and girls with disabilities face high barriers, discrimination, and sexual harassment in accessing government assistance, health care, and schools.
19 Apr 2020 07:56
Afghanistan's education system launches platform for online classes
Afghanistan has launched an online education system to help students catch up with their lessons in the time of the novel coronavirus, but this has caused trouble as many school children have no access to the internet.
13 Jan 2019 13:27
Gas cylinder blast leaves 9 dead in Kabul
An Afghan official says at least nine people were killed when a gas cylinder exploded in Kabul.
12 Jan 2019 10:02
Salang pass blocked due to heavy snowfall
Salang pass which connects northern parts of Afghanistan to the capital Kabul has been blocked due to heavy snowfalls, an official said on Saturday.
6 Jan 2019 15:38
Badakhshan mine collapse kills 30
At least 30 people were killed when a gold mine collapsed in Badakhshan province Sunday, local officials said.
27 Dec 2018 11:08
Iranian studies room opens in Kabul Rabbani University
Iranian studies room was inaugurated in Education University of Rabbani in Kabul yesterday in a ceremony attended by Iran’s cultural attaché and chancellor of the university.
31 Oct 2018 12:21
Eight killed in Kabul-Parwan highway accident
At least eight civilians including two women were killed in a traffic accident on Wednesday morning in Parwan province when two Toyota Corolla vehicles collided, Parwan provincial traffic department said.
20 Aug 2018 13:02
Pilgrims flock to mount Arafat to mark important Hajj day
Around three million pilgrims, including Afghans, have begun ascending the plains of Mount Arafat shortly after sunrise on Monday to perform the most important ritual in Hajj.
