The death toll from an earthquake in northern Afghanistan is climbing, and hundreds of families have lost their homes as the harsh winter arrives.

Five months after Taliban supporters smashed up her restaurant, Afghan entrepreneur Laila Haidari opened a secret craft centre where women earn a small income stitching elaborate dresses and fashioning jewellery from melted down bullet casings.

The Taliban’s hard-line government in Afghanistan is making major inroads in garnering legitimacy abroad. Despite its extremist policies, the international community has accepted that the Islamist group is here to stay,

UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before Taliban’s narcotics ban.

The Taliban on Friday threatened to resume hostilities against foreign troops in Afghanistan if they did not meet a May 1 deadline to withdraw.

In Afghanistan, freedom of press is being strangled under Taliban regime. According to a report by Amu TV, censorship, arrests and pressure have inflicted significant harm on press freedom in Afghanistan.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan fell by 20% in 2025, with total output dropping 32% to 296 tons, according to the UNODC.

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

Sharing the song on social media platform X, Sonam Mahajan, a writer for Rising Kashmir, stated, "The Taliban drop a song calling the Pakistan Army ungrateful, hypocritical slaves