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Afghanistan-Pakistan: Deadly Cross-Border Clashes Intensify - The Afghan Times Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Wednesday they carried out major retaliatory attacks against Pakistani military positions across the Durand Line, saying 55 Pakistani soldiers were killed, as te...

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Last night, Pakistani airstrikes targeted a home in Paktika province. The attack killed three civilians, including two children, and left eight others injured, including women and children.

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Taliban Says 55 Pakistani Soldiers Killed in Cross-Border Retaliation After Deadly Airstrikes - The Afghan Times Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Wednesday they carried out major retaliatory attacks against Pakistani military positions across the Durand Line, saying 55 Pakistani soldiers were killed, as te...

Taliban Says 55 Pakistani Soldiers Killed in Cross-Border Retaliation After Deadly Airstrikes

GENEVA — Annalena Baerbock, President of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, told the UN Human Rights Council the world must not normalize the Taliban’s violations of women’s and girls’ rights, warning it would erode fundamental freedoms and weaken global gender equality commitments.

Eight School Students Killed in Pakistani Airstrikes in Eastern Afghanistan - The Afghan Times Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education, under the control of the Taliban government, says eight school students were killed and one madrasa student was wounded in Pakistani airstrikes carried out overnig...

Eight School Students Killed in Pakistani Airstrikes in Eastern Afghanistan

17 Civilians, Including 11 Children, Killed in Pakistani Airstrike on Home in Nangarhar - The Afghan Times At least 17 civilians, including 11 children, were killed in a Pakistani airstrike on a farmer’s home in the Behsood district of Nangarhar Province in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban authorities reported...

17 Civilians, Including 11 Children, Killed in Pakistani Airstrike on Home in Nangarhar

23 Family Members Trapped Under Rubble After Pakistani Airstrikes in Nangarhar - The Afghan Times 23 members of a single family were trapped under rubble following Pakistani airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, with four recovered so far and the remaining still missing. The strikes took place at aro...

23 Family Members Trapped Under Rubble After Pakistani Airstrikes in Nangarhar

Afghan Singer Who Once Fled Taliban Now Publicly Supports Their Rule - The Afghan Times Afghan singer Latif Nangarhari said during a recent TikTok live broadcast that the Taliban system would last for fifty years while criticizing members of Afghanistan’s former republic government. In t...

Afghan Singer Who Once Fled Taliban Now Publicly Supports Their Rule

Rashid Khan on Women’s Cricket: “I Definitely Want to See Anyone Represent Afghanistan” - The Afghan Times Ahead of the T20 World Cup match against New Zealand, Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan spoke about the importance of women’s participation in cricket and broader opportunities for all Afghans. He expre...

Rashid Khan on Women’s Cricket: “I Definitely Want to See Anyone Represent Afghanistan”

Afghan Girls Still Barred From Education After 1,605 Days - The Afghan Times It has been around 1,605 days since the Taliban, about one month after taking power in August 2021, issued the order banning girls above grade 6 from continuing their education — a ban that remains fi...

Afghan Girls Still Barred From Education After 1,605 Days

UNICEF Warns 2.2 Million Girls Denied Schooling, Risks to Health, Early Marriage and National Future

Two Killed in Separate Traffic Incidents in Nangarhar Province - The Afghan Times Two people were killed in two separate traffic incidents in Jalalabad city, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, according to Taliban local authorities. The Taliban-run Nangarhar Media Office sa...

Two Killed in Separate Traffic Incidents in Nangarhar Province

Afghan Cyclists Denied Airport Entry to Asian Championships in Saudi Arabia - The Afghan Times Afghan cyclists traveling to represent their country at the 2026 Asian Road Cycling Championships in Saudi Arabia were denied entry at the airport, despite holding valid visas. The Afghanistan Cycling...

Afghan cyclists were denied airport entry in Saudi Arabia despite holding valid visas for the Asian Road Cycling Championships

13-Year-Old Afghan Girl Detained for Working in Boys’ Clothes Under Taliban Rule - The Afghan Times A video circulating widely on social media shows a 13-year-old Afghan girl being detained and forced to confess on camera by a Taliban member after she was discovered working while disguised in boys’ ...

13-Year-Old Afghan Girl Detained for Working in Boys’ Clothes Under Taliban Rule

Video From Ghor Province Shows Orphaned Girl Detained by Taliban While Dressed as a Boy — A Stark Portrait of Women’s Survival Under Gender Bans

“We Will Never Recognise the Taliban,” Says Spain Foreign Minister - The Afghan Times Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said on Friday that Spain will never recognise the Taliban government as long as his administration is in power, emphasizing that this stance supports Afgh...

“We Will Never Recognise the Taliban,” Says Spain Foreign Minister

“A Country at a Crossroads”: UN Deputy Envoy Warns Afghanistan Is Sliding Deeper Into Crisis - The Afghan Times Afghanistan is “a country at a crossroads,” warned Georgette Gagnon, the UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and UNAMA Deputy Chief, as Taliban policies push the natio...

“A Country at a Crossroads”: UN Deputy Envoy Warns Afghanistan Is Sliding Deeper Into Crisis

Taliban Destroy 657 Musical Instruments in Nangarhar - The Afghan Times Taliban in Nangarhar say they have seized and destroyed 657 musical instruments, which belonged to local residents. In a statement released by the Taliban-run governor’s office In Nangrahar province, ...

Taliban Destroy 657 Musical Instruments in Nangarhar

Taliban Ban on Afghan Women Entering UN Premises Reaches Three Months - The Afghan Times Three months have passed since the Taliban imposed sweeping restrictions barring Afghan women staff and contractors from entering all United Nations premises across Afghanistan, the UN Women says. In ...

Taliban Ban on Afghan Women Entering UN Premises Reaches Three Months

Taliban Execute Man in Public Gathering in Khost province - The Afghan Times The Taliban executed a man in a public gathering in Khost Province on Tuesday, with an estimated 80,000 people present, according to the provincial governor’s office. The statement released by the Tal...

Taliban Execute Man in Public Gathering in Khost province

Taliban Detain 70-Year-Old TikTok User Over Alleged ‘Un-Islamic’ Content The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice says it has detained a 70-year-old TikTok user known online as “Malak Akbar.” Saiful Islam Khyber, the ministry’s spokes...

Taliban Detain 70-Year-Old TikTok User Over Alleged ‘Un-Islamic’ Content

Vaccine Hesitancy Leaves Thousands of Children in Uruzgan at Risk - The Afghan Times Despite continued support from international organizations and repeated vaccination campaigns against polio, measles, pertussis, and other deadly diseases, many children in Uruzgan remain unvaccinated...

Vaccine Hesitancy Leaves Thousands of Children in Uruzgan at Risk

Afghan Refugees’ “Last Path to Safety” Closed as U.S. Freezes Visas - The Afghan Times Thousands of Afghan nationals who fled the country after the Taliban takeover are now facing uncertainty after the U.S. government announced an indefinite suspension of all visa and immigration applic...

Following a shooting near the White House, Washington suspends all Afghan immigration and resettlement applications indefinitely, leaving thousands stranded abroad.

Ashraf Ghani Breaks Silence as Pakistan–Taliban Tensions Escalate - The Afghan Times Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has re-entered the public conversation with two lengthy statements posted on Facebook on 20 November and 27 November 2025, addressing what he describes as a critic...

Explainer: Ashraf Ghani Breaks Silence as Pakistan–Taliban Tensions Escalate

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani issues two detailed statements calling for national consensus and warning against new cycles of internal conflict.

Expanding Restrictions Silence Women in Southern Afghanistan’s Media - The Afghan Times In the southern provinces—Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, and Uruzgan—the presence of female journalists has fallen to zero. No woman is currently employed in any media institution across these provinces. M...

Expanding Restrictions Silence Women in Southern Afghanistan’s Media

Pakistan Airstrikes Kill 10 Civilians in Afghanistan - The Afghan Times The Taliban government has accused Pakistan of carrying out airstrikes overnight in Khost, Kunar, and Paktika provinces, killing 10 civilians, including nine children and one woman. Taliban Spokespers...

Pakistan Airstrikes Kill 10 Civilians in Afghanistan

Covert Classrooms and Invisible Incomes: How Afghan Women Are Resisting - The Afghan Times One afternoon in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, 20-year-old Maryam slips through the alleyways with a notebook hidden beneath her scarf. She is heading to what looks like an ordinary home, but inside, ...

Covert Classrooms and Invisible Incomes: How Afghan Women Are Resisting

‘There Is No School Here’: Returnee Families in Helmand Fear for Their Children’s Future - The Afghan Times Haji Abdullah from Gereshk district in Helmand, who returned from Pakistan about 18 months ago, says his children have been unable to continue their education since coming back. “In Pakistan, all the ...

‘There Is No School Here’: Returnee Families in Helmand Fear for Their Children’s Future

Afghan Sports Journalists Condemn Pakistani Airstrike That Killed Local Cricketers in Paktika - The Afghan Times The Afghanistan Sports Journalists Federation (ASJF) has “strongly” condemned what it described as a “cowardly and unlawful” airstrike by Pakistan’s military regime in Paktika Province, which reported...

Afghan Sports Journalists Condemn Pakistani Airstrike That Killed Local Cricketers in Paktika

ACB Condemns Pakistan Airstrike That Killed Cricketers in Paktika - The Afghan Times The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has expressed deep sorrow and outrage following a deadly attack in Urgun District of Paktika Province that claimed the lives of three cricketers and several civilia...

ACB Condemns Pakistan Airstrike That Killed Cricketers in Paktika theafghantimes.com/acb-condemns...

Eight Local Cricketers Killed in Pakistani Airstrikes on Paktika - The Afghan Times Sources within the Afghanistan Cricket Board told The Afghan Times that eight local-level cricket players were killed and four others injured in Pakistani military airstrikes on Paktika province. Acco...

Eight Local Cricketers Killed in Pakistani Airstrikes on Paktika

Afghan Journalist Killed, Another Wounded in Reported Cross-Border Fire from Pakistani Forces - The Afghan Times An Afghan journalist lost his life and another sustained injuries after Pakistani troops allegedly fired across the border in Afghanistan’s Khost province, local officials said. Authorities in Khost c...

Afghan Journalist Killed, Another Wounded in Reported Cross-Border Fire from Pakistani Forces theafghantimes.com/afghan-journ...