PARUN — Torrential monsoon-driven flash floods swept through eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on Monday, July 20, 2026, leaving at least 23 people dead, more than 80 injured, and around 100 individuals unaccounted for. The sudden deluge wiped out entire neighborhoods, markets, and municipal infrastructure across the mountainous province. The worst-hit area was Parun, the provincial…
WASHINGTON — The United States Department of Defense has officially released the identities and photographs of two American service members killed following a series of Iranian drone and ballistic missile strikes on a military installation in Jordan. The Pentagon confirmed on Monday that the fallen active-duty soldiers are Private Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas,…
HERAT — The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has intensified its domestic campaign against civilian independence in western Afghanistan, detaining at least five women in the city of Herat over a 48-hour period. According to verified reports from local eye-witnesses and independent regional monitors, the arbitrary detentions occurred…
