A prominent Afghan journalist and news anchor has been shot dead alongside her driver as she traveled to work in Jalalabad. Malala Maiwand, 24, worked for the private media group Enikass and was a vocal advocate of women's rights.
Optimism among Afghans regarding the country's peace process has decreased significantly in the past few months amid a spike in violence, according to a survey released on December 11.
The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution over Russian objections on December 10 commending progress in peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban while urging stepped-up efforts to tackle terrorist attacks in the country.
The killing of a female journalist has deprived Afghanistan of a bold campaigner who spoke truth to power and stood for preserving her country's gains in human rights and freedoms that were unthinkable under previous Afghan regimes.
Merman Radio, a female-led station in the Afghan city of Kandahar, has received the 2020 Prize for Impact from press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders. The broadcasters won praise for their programs on issues that affect Afghan women.
Mourners attended the funeral of Afghan television journalist Malala Maiwand after she and her driver were killed by unidentified assailants in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The attack took place early on December 10 in the provincial capital, Jalalabad.
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.
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