After taking office on January 20, US President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause to reassess the country's global assistance funding. "Aid groups or countries should not use humanitarian aid for political gains," economy ministry spokesman Abdul Rahman Habib told AFP.
Thousands of Afghans who aided the U.S. military are stuck in limbo after Trump paused all refugee resettlement.
The co-owner of Kabul Corner expressed deep concerns about the future of her community following the president's recent executive order
Afghanistan is launching a three-day polio vaccination campaign in 16 provinces, including Kabul, with the aim of vaccinating more than 6 million children under the age of five. This comes as cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) have risen to 25 in 2024,
Iran and Afghanistan called for increased cooperation during a trip to Kabul on Sunday by Tehran's foreign minister, the highest-level Iranian official to visit the Afghan capital since the Taliban's takeover in 2021.
Tens of thousands of Afghans who risked their lives working for the U.S. government or military are now in limbo after the Trump administration issued two executive orders targeting refugees.
On 27 January 2025, the inaugural trilateral meeting of representatives of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and the Turkish Çalık Holding was held in Kabul, dedicated to the launch of the operational phase of the large-scale TAP-500 power transmission line project connecting Turkmenistan,
A Canadian ex-soldier detained by the Taliban government in Afghanistan was freed on Sunday after over two months of imprisonment in a deal brokered by Qatar, a source with knowledge of the release told AFP.
KABUL (Reuters) -The United States has freed an Afghan convicted by an American court on charges of drug smuggling and terrorism in exchange for two U.S. citizens held in Afghanistan, authorities in Kabul said on Tuesday.
To Pakistan, it's too little - and rightly so. Well, the context here is the shifting of some family members of TTP fighters from the areas bordering Pakistan, by the interim Afghan government. This relocation is meant to placate Islamabad's growing anger over the ghastly TTP activities inside Pakistan.
As President Donald Trump works to limit the number of immigrants in the country, Afghans who fled Taliban rule are adjusting to life in the U.S.