The Taliban has declared a cease-fire during the three-day religious holiday of Eid al-Fitr later this week as Afghanistan is gripped by intensifying violence.
Funerals were held in the Afghan capital on May 9 for the victims of an attack a day earlier at a girls' school that killed at least 50 people and wounded another 100.
The Pentagon has deployed more heavy bombers and fighter jets to ensure the protection of the withdrawing U.S. and coalition troops from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on May 6.
Taliban fighters have captured Afghanistan's second-biggest dam and two Afghan Army bases, militants and officials said, as fighting escalates amid the ongoing pullout of U.S. and international forces from the war-wracked country.
Severe hunger affected at least 155 million people last year as a result of conflicts, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and weather extremes and the outlook for this year is equally harsh or worse, a report by 16 organizations says.
Human Rights Watch has warned that falling international donor support to Afghanistan has reduced women's access to essential health care, and that it expects further cuts in the coming months as foreign forces prepare to withdraw from the country.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants captured a district in northern Afghanistan after hours of fighting with government forces amid a recent surge in violence as the United States begins to pull its forces from the war-torn country.
The Taliban is seeking to further undercut support for the fragile Afghan government by co-opting disgruntled members of Afghanistan’s political elite.
Militants in Afghanistan opened fire across the border at soldiers in southwestern Pakistan on May 5, killing at least four soldiers and wounding six before fleeing, the Pakistani military said.
A roadside bomb targeted a minibus carrying medical workers in the Afghan capital on May 5, killing one person, Kabul police and officials said.
U.S. intelligence agencies warn in an unclassified report released on May 4 that gains in women's rights in Afghanistan made in the last two decades will be at risk after U.S. troops withdraw.
Thousands of people have fled their homes in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand as Afghan security forces fought back a large-scale offensive after the United States began to pull its forces from the war-torn country.
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