South & Central Asia

A UN assessment finds some 14 million Afghans are barely able to meet their daily minimum food needs

The message quashed widespread rumors in Kabul that Ghani was going to announce his resignation and allow Taliban to enter Kabul in return for the militant group announcing a ceasefire

Taliban inching closer to capital

Epidemiologists say third wave may be milder because surveys show that two-thirds of country has already been exposed to the coronavirus

US troops head to Afghanistan to secure embassy, evacuate staff, Afghans

Afghan capital is not yet in imminent danger, officials say, even as US forces begin arriving to evacuate nonessential personnel from city

Taliban’s newfound focus on financial independence appears to be paying off, with the group generating $300 million to $1.6 billion a year 

Several planeloads of asylum-seekers have departed with the first one landing Friday in Toronto

While vice president was calling Taliban terrorists and promising to resist, reconciliation council leader was shuttling between Kabul and Doha to make a deal

Hundreds of Afghan residents chanted 'Allahu akbar' (God is great) in support of Afghan security forces in early August 

Antonio Guterres says Taliban military campaign can only lead to prolonged civil war or Afghanistan’s international isolation

The UN agency for children, UNICEF, says that it is ‘shocked’ by the ‘grave violations’ against children” in Afghanistan 

Gunmen escorted women to their homes and told them not to return to their jobs

Hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians have fled fighting precipitated by the US and NATO troop withdrawal

Defense Secretary Ben Wallace warns Afghanistan risks becoming a failed state and predicts al-Qaida will thrive again in the country