O pium farming in Afghanistan has dropped significantly following a ban imposed by the Taliban government in 2022, the United Nations said. The total area of land for growing opium poppy shrank 20% since last year, while the amount of opium has fallen by 32% over the same period, the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime said in a survey.

Opium production has dropped sharply in Afghanistan, but trafficking in the region is on the rise, according to a Thursday report by the United Nations.

Hidden in the basement of a private home in the Afghan capital Kabul, gym instructor Laila Ahmad takes a group of women through a clandestine exercise class - the windows are blacked out, there is no pumping music and visitors arrive by a back door.

Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition sent a powerful message.

The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October

Women in Afghanistan are being forced to undergo so-called virginity tests, more than two years after a law requiring consent was introduced, researchers said on Thursday.

A man suspected of helping plan attacks on Jewish sites in Germany was arrested Wednesday in Denmark, according to Germany’s

Afghan-American Sayeda Qader leads The Kalaam Project, a humanitarian relief team providing emergency aid to local Afghans – including after August’s devastating quake.

An Afghan migrant has appeared in court accused of fatally stabbing a dog walker in Uxbridge, west London, and injuring two more people. Safi Dawood, 22, is charged with murdering Wayne Broadhurst, 49, the attempted murder of his landlord and a 14-year-old boy, on 27 October.

Safi Dawood, an Afghan national, appeared before Westminster magistrates to face a murder charge and two counts of attempted murder after Wayne Broadhurst was killed and two others were injured in the attack in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge, on Monday.

For years, Afghan interpreters and guides risked their lives, aiding U.S. forces with the promise of safe haven in America. However, shifts in U.S. refugee policy under the Trump administration have left over 1,