Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Pakistan on April 6 for a two-day trip expected to focus on efforts to bring peace to neighboring Afghanistan.
Afghan security forces have recaptured a key district from the Taliban in the southern Kandahar Province in an operation that killed and wounded dozens of militants, the Ministry of Defense said on April 5.
Afghan police say that one security force member was killed, and three others were wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb near the capital, Kabul.
The United States has lifted sanctions on senior members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), including a prosecutor who had launched an investigation into alleged war crimes by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan.
Roadside bombs killed at least five civilians and wounded seven others on April 2 in Afghanistan, local officials said.
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.
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