Iran and Afghanistan have officially inaugurated their first railway link, an achievement the two countries’ presidents said would help enhance trade across the region.
A female journalist for a private Afghan television station has been slain by unidentified assailants in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Experts in Afghanistan have documented a surge in the number of suicide car bombings carried out by the Taliban.
Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern province of Badakhshan, home to a plethora of rare and nearly extinct animals, is seeing an increase in illegal bird hunting despite a ban on such practices to preserve the region’s rich biodiversity.
The number of Afghan civilians killed in air strikes increased dramatically after the U.S. military relaxed its rules of engagement in 2017, according to a study by a U.S. university researcher that was rejected by the U.S. military as “one-sided.”
All Afghan primary schoolchildren in the first three years are to be educated at mosques to give students a "powerful Islamic identity," in an unprecedented move that has drawn widespread public criticism.
A successful peace process with the Taliban will allow the government to focus its resources on countering the Islamic State group and its attacks on soft targets, Afghanistan's national security adviser said on December 5.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says violence in Afghanistan is "unacceptably high" as delayed peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban get under way.
A factory in the Afghan city of Herat recycles plastic waste into filler material for insulation, pillows, and even clothing. Employing some 300 people, the factory plays an important economic role in the city as well as an environmental one.
China’s senior diplomat in Australia said Prime Minister Scott Morrison overreacted to a social media post about alleged war crimes by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, adding that his actions drew more attention to the report.
Afghan government and Taliban representatives said on December 2 they had reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written agreement in 19 years of war and welcomed by the United States as a chance to halt the violence.
New legislation proposed in Iran would impose 25-year jail terms on illegal migrants while also giving officials the authority to fire on vehicles suspected of carrying asylum seekers.
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