KABUL — The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released a stark assessment on Monday, June 15, 2026, announcing that 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are currently suffering from acute malnutrition. The agency warned that immediate, scaled-up international funding is vital to prevent catastrophic loss of life and permanent developmental damage…
GHAZNI — A child was killed and two others were injured on Monday, June 15, 2026, when an unexploded ordnance shell detonated in the Kewan area of Ghazni city’s third police district. Khalid Sarhadi, spokesperson for the local police command, confirmed that the explosion occurred when a group of nomadic (Kuchi) children discovered and attempted…
GHAZNI, Afghanistan — A severe traffic collision involving a passenger bus and a commercial cargo trailer has left two people dead and 29 others injured in eastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, local authorities confirmed Sunday. The incident occurred at approximately 10:00 p.m. on Saturday night along the Rawza Pass (Rawza Kotal), a critical transport corridor situated…
BRUSSELS — The European Union hosted a five-member Taliban delegation in Brussels on Tuesday, marking the first time the de facto Afghan authorities have been received for official talks at the EU headquarters since seizing power in 2021. The high-stakes meeting has ignited a fierce backlash from human rights groups and international activists who warn…
BRUSSELS — The European Union has crossed a major diplomatic threshold by quietly hosting a five-member delegation of Taliban officials at its headquarters in Brussels. This marks the first time since the August 2021 takeover that representatives of the unrecognized fundamentalist regime have been received directly on EU soil. The secret talks have sparked intense…
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,…
BRUSSELS — History is repeating itself in the corridors of Western diplomacy, this time under a European banner. The European Union’s decision to invite five-member Taliban delegation to Brussels marks a profound diplomatic shift that mirrors the controversial architecture of the 2020 US-Taliban Doha talks. While separated by six years and different primary agendas, both…
KABUL — More than 2,900 Afghan migrants, spanning over 535 families, were forced to return to Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan and Iran, Taliban officials announced Sunday. The figures underscore a relentless, ongoing deportation campaign by neighboring states that is exacerbating an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis inside Afghanistan. Hamdullah Fitrat, the deputy spokesperson for the Taliban…
Germany has deported another group of Afghan citizens back to their home country via a designated charter flight. According to published reports, the flight carried approximately 30 Afghan men who were convicted of different offenses. The security operation was executed under the framework of a direct agreement negotiated with the de facto Taliban administration in…
A powerful wave of global solidarity has mobilized across the world following recent public demonstrations in the Jabrail neighborhood of Herat, Afghanistan. Afghans and international civil activists have staged coordinated rallies in at least 14 major global cities to protest the Taliban’s escalating restrictions and recent arbitrary arrests of women and girls. The international rallies…
