A group of female artists in Afghanistan’s central province of Bamyan has recently opened a small pyrography and engraving studio to promote fine arts in the region. VOA’s Zafar Bamiyani has more from Bamyan in this report narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.
An Afghan official says a female police officer has been gunned down in the eastern city of Jalalabad, the latest reported killing targeting women in the provincial capital.
Human Rights Watch accuses the Taliban of having engaged in “a pattern of threats, intimidation, and violence” against media workers in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s Tatar community has been largely forgotten over the centuries. But now, the Turkic-speaking ethnic group is gaining greater recognition in the war-torn country.
Amnesty International is urging the Afghan government and the international community to scale up efforts to support the country’s 4 million internally displaced people who it says have “little or no means” of protecting themselves from contracting, spreading, and recovering from COVID-19.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has sketched out parts of his peace proposal at a regional summit, hinting for the first time he may be open to a possible transitional government leading to early elections.
Afghan officials say unknown gunmen have killed three female polio vaccination health workers in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
An Afghan human rights group says it is investigating the alleged killing of civilians during fighting between government forces and Taliban insurgents in the eastern province of Khost.
There is a risk that Afghanistan’s non-Muslim minorities, many of whose members fled during the tumultuous decades following the 1978 communist coup, could vanish completely if peace does not follow the departure of international troops this year.
Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has traveled to Turkey and the region as part of an effort to encourage the Taliban and the Afghan government to work toward a peace agreement as a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops looms.
Afghan officials say more than a dozen police officers have been killed in attacks by the Taliban in the country’s volatile south.
The city of Paris has inaugurated a pathway in the Champs-Elysees gardens named after the late Afghan resistance fighter and anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Masud.
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