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Four young girls dressed in matching outfits hold Taliban flags on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the US withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi)
August 15, 2026, 1:40 pm
Taliban marks 5 years back in power as Afghan women remain shut out of public life
Officials tout stability and end to war while women remain barred from universities and girls over 12 are shut out of school; UN warns of deepening rights crisis
By Qahar Afghan and Susan Frazer
The coffins of seven British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, are driven through the town of Wootton Bassett, England, after repatriation to Britain, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)
January 23, 2026, 7:23 pm
UK’s Starmer urges Trump to apologize for ‘appalling’ remarks that NATO allies shirked battle
Fury mounts after US president falsely says that NATO allies — who lost hundreds of soldiers — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan
By Pan Pylas
National Guard patrol the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, Nov. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
November 30, 2025, 12:03 am
US freezes all asylum decisions, visas for Afghans after National Guard shooting
Director of US immigration services says asylum approvals will be paused ‘until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible’
By AP
Flowers and an American flag, placed at the scene a day after two National Guard soldiers were shot near the White House in Washington, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
November 28, 2025, 7:17 pm
Suspect in shooting of US National Guard members facing first-degree murder charge
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who served in CIA-backed Afghan Army unit, also accused of assault with intent to kill; governor says 2nd victim remains in ‘very critical condition’
By AP
This combo from photos provided by the US Attorney's Office on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, show National Guard members, from left, Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe and Specialist Sarah Beckstrom. (US Attorney’s Office via AP)
November 28, 2025, 5:12 am
US National Guard member dies of wounds sustained in DC shooting
Trump announces death of Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and eulogizes her as an ‘incredible person, outstanding in every single way’; second victim said ‘fighting for his life’ in hospital
By AP
Emergency personnel keep a presence following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers near the White House in Washington, November 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
November 27, 2025, 11:05 pm
Afghani man who shot officers in DC served in CIA-backed force, was granted US asylum
Trump urges removal of any non-citizen ‘who does not belong here’ after Rahmanullah Lakanwal allegedly drove across US to carry out ‘targeted’ attack near White House, critically injuring two National Guard soldiers
By Maria Danilova
Injured Afghan people receive treatment at a hospital after an earthquake in Afghanistan's Jalalabad on September 1, 2025. (Aimal ZAHIR / AFP)
September 1, 2025, 9:30 am
Magnitude 6 earthquake hits Afghanistan, at least 250 said killed, 500 injured
‘Several villages have been completely destroyed,’ says Taliban government, after 5-mile-deep quake strikes near Pakistan border; casualty counts expected to rise
By AP
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 24, 2025, 3:21 pm
Taliban slams possible ICC arrest warrant, says court should go after Israel and US
Kabul accuses court of trying to ‘impose a particular interpretation of human rights’ after chief prosecutor says Taliban leaders suspected of gender-based crimes against humanity
By AFP
The so-called Afghan Liturgical Quire, a codex some believe is the oldest Jewish book in existence. (Museum of the Bible)
September 25, 2024, 7:44 am
Museum of the Bible unveils newly dated ‘oldest Jewish book’
Museum says 5-inch by 5-inch codex, including prayers, poems and Haggadah, is relic from Jewish minority in 8th century Afghanistan
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Afghan burqa-clad women stand in a queue as they wait to receive food being distributed as an aid by the World Food Programme (WFP) organization at Nawabad Kako Sahib area in Baraki Barak district of Logar Province on January 7, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP)
January 10, 2024, 11:30 pm
Taliban official says women detained for improper dress amid crackdown in Kabul
Afghan security official claims detainees were only advised ‘to have greater respect and dignity’ and were not ‘disrespected or humiliated’
By AFP
Afghan residents sit at a damaged house after earthquake in Sarbuland village of Zendeh Jan, district of Herat province, on October 7,2023 (Mohsen KARIMI / AFP)
October 8, 2023, 9:57 am
Death toll from western Afghanistan earthquakes rises to over 2,000, Taliban says
Villages destroyed and hundreds of civilians buried under the debris; UN says number of dead expected to rise
By AP
Prof. Ido Didi Fabian performing surgery on a retinoblastoma patient. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
August 21, 2023, 2:06 am
Via modern medical ‘Silk Road,’ Israeli doctors are saving the lives of Afghan kids
Ocular oncologists from Sheba Medical Center work with colleagues in Kabul and Lahore to get children with deadly eye cancer out of Afghanistan for critical treatment in Pakistan
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: In this July 17, 2017, file photo, a fighter of the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. (Hussein Malla/AP)
August 15, 2023, 11:16 am
UN: Islamic State still has thousands of fighters across Syria and Iraq
Report from United Nations panel says members of group’s sleeper cells pose the most serious terrorist threat in Afghanistan today
By Edith M. Lederer
In this photo provided by Rescue 1122 Head Quarters, an ambulance carries injured people after a bomb explosion in the Bajur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Sunday, July 30, 2023. A powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday. (Rescue 1122 Head Quarters via AP)
July 31, 2023, 6:14 am
Suicide bomber at political rally in Pakistan kills at least 44, wounds nearly 200
Attacker strikes gathering of supporters of hard-line cleric and political leader in country’s northwestern Bajur district, which borders Afghanistan
By ANWARULLAH KHAN and RIAZ KHAN
Beauticians put makeup on customers at Ms. Sadat's Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 25, 2021. (Rahmat Gul/AP)
July 5, 2023, 12:40 pm
Taliban outlaw women’s beauty salons in Afghanistan
Virtue and Vice Ministry says move is direct order from supreme leader, gives businesses a month to close up
By RIAZAT BUTT
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