Aided by her mother, Mahtab Amiri, who coordinated her escape, she left the country with Erfaan and was driven to Iran. From there, she made her way to Turkey and then Greece before she eventually settled in Norway, where she was granted asylum.

A regional meeting hosted by Iran on Afghanistan underscored calls for lifting sanctions and strengthening regional cooperation, even as Afghanistan itself did not attend

The current conflict is the most serious since the Taliban’s return in 2021. Yet it is also a logical extension of the never-ending tensions between the two countries.

Riders from different Afghan provinces compete in the final of Afghanistan’s annual buzkashi tournament on the outskirts of Kabul, as spectators, including Taliban authorities, attend the event. Buzkashi is a traditional equestrian sport in which riders score points by carrying a goat carcass — nowadays replaced by a fake goat carcass — across a goal.

The U.S. poured billions of dollars into rebuilding Afghanistan for two decades. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

Built during a cosmopolitan era in the 1960s, the Ariana closed when the Taliban took power, but it was still standing. Now it’s making way for a shopping mall.

Through the dust kicked up by the pounding hooves of a scrum of horses and riders, a winner emerges. The victorious team gallops around the playing field, holding a flag aloft. The final of Afghanistan’s hugely popular annual tournament of buzkashi,

Taliban officials admit that at least half of the stockpile is now “unaccounted for.” Many of those weapons ended up with militant groups operating across Afghanistan’s borders.

For the first time in decades, WFP cannot launch a significant winter response, while also scaling up emergency and nutrition support nationwide. It urgently requires US$468 million to deliver life-saving food assistance to six million of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable people, helping them survive.

The foreign minister in Afghanistan's Taliban-run government says that the actions of an Afghan national charged in the shooting of two U.S.