Since the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021, an estimated 80 percent of women journalists across Afghanistan have lost their jobs or left the profession; hundreds of media outlets have closed their operations, the HRW said in its report

The Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an umbrella body of Islamic countries, has opened its office in the Afghan capital Kabul in a move to help the group coordinate its humanitarian operations in the country

India has sent the second batch of wheat shipment as part of its humanitarian assistance to crisis-hit Afghanistan which has been going through what has become one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world

Afghanistan’s economy is heading towards “a point of “irreversibility” and is nearing a “ tipping point” where there will be more businesses closed, job losses, the UN special envoy for the country has warned, asking the international community to work to address the issue of reviving the Afghan economy

In what comes a major relief for Afghanistan, the World Bank has approved a decision transferring $1 billion from the frozen Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) to United Nations' agencies and select international aid groups to support aid operations in the country gripped humanitarian crisis

The Taliban has banned Afghans from leaving the country, a move that the group claimed was taken after considering the alleged hardships faced by Afghan refugees abroad in camps in different countries

Panic and fear gripped millions of residents of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, as Taliban fighters came knocking on the doors and searching their homes in what the group said is a security sweep in the city of almost five million people

Eight polio workers were killed in different attacks on Thursday in two northern provinces of Afghanistan, the United Nations confirmed

Iran has assured its assistance to help rebuild the Afghan economy, the Taliban’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said

Around 50 Afghan trucks laden with wheat will be taken to Afghanistan overland through Pakistan as India begins sending the long-awaited first consignment of about 2,000 metric tonnes of wheat to Kabul Tuesday as part of its pledged humanitarian assistance last year

In what comes as huge relief to Afghan teachers, who remain unpaid for months, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has said it will pay a fixed stipend for two months to support them

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met an Afghan Sikh-Hindu delegation at his residence, members of a minority community who have been facing persecution in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country in mid-August last year

India’s wheat shipment, part of its humanitarian assistance to crisis-hit Afghanistan, is likely to begin from the next week via Pakistan as the two sides have reportedly finalized all modalities after a delay of almost three months. Afghan trucks would start collecting Indian wheat shipment from the Wagah border from 21 February, Associated Press reported, citing two officials of Pakistan’s Foreign Office

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order freeing up $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets in the US, splitting it between humanitarian aid for the distressed country and a fund for the September 11 attack’s victims in the US— a long delayed move that united Afghans across the political spectrum in protesting against what they see as plundering of the money that belongs to common Afghans

A UN rights body has called for the release of four Afghan women activists and their relatives detained or arrested by the Taliban in the last few weeks