Afghanistan

The Taliban had confirmed they were holding Ryan Corbett, who was arrested in August 2022 and whom the State Department had classified as wrongfully detained.

The Taliban is rejecting concerns and criticism raised by the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public.

Fariba Hashimi and Yulduz Hashimi will make history as the first Afghan cyclists when they compete in the women’s road race at the 2024 Paris Games.

The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan.

#AfghanEvac has spent years working to relocate Afghans who aided the U.S. during its longest war

From Moscow, Russian civil aviation authorities said a Dassault Falcon 10 went missing with four crew members and two passengers

NBC 7’s Joey Safchik shows us a local organization working with the federal government to settle refugees.

A Navy veteran in San Diego has helped thousands of Afghans make it to American shores in the years since U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan was hit with a 6.3-magnitude earthquake Sunday, the fourth earthquake of that magnitude in just over a week.

U.N. officials say more than 90% of the more than 2,000 people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan were women and children.

Another strong earthquake has shaken part of western Afghanistan where a quake killed more than 2,000 on Saturday.

In San Diego, the Afghan Community in El Cajon is coming together to help the city of Herat get back on its feet following the tragedy. “This El Cajon area, most of the Afghans settled here…most of them came here in 2001 when the government toppled,” Javid Nooristani with the Afghan Community Culture Center said. Every three months, members of…

If you’re interested in helping, you can contact the Afghan Community Center in El Cajon.

A Taliban government spokesperson says the death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has jumped to more than 2,000.

The case of an Afghan man who represented himself in U.S. immigration court offers a rare look in that system’s proceedings.

Abdul Wasi Safi, 27, is one of tens of thousands of Afghan citizens who fled to the U.S. following the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan in August 2021.

After two years in power, the Taliban are entrenched as rulers of Afghanistan, facing no significant opposition that could topple them.

An explosion at a political rally on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan killed at least 44 people and wounded nearly 200 in a Sunday attack that a senior leader called aimed at weakening the Islamist party.