Large number of worshippers killed or wounded during Friday prayers in blast claimed by ISKPAt least 100 worshippers have been killed or injured in a suicide bombing that targeted a packed Shia mosque in Afghanistan during Friday prayers.Responsibility…
Former British embassy driver badly beaten in Kabul
Man, one of 150 staff who applied to be evacuated to UK, suffers fractured skull and hand in attackA former employee of the British embassy in Kabul has been badly beaten at his home by five armed men, in an attack linked to his 11 years working with U…
UK officials return to Afghanistan to meet Taliban for first time since takeover
Diplomats visit Kabul to raise issue of ‘safe passage’ for Britons leaving Afghanistan and rights of womenBritish officials have gone to Afghanistan for the first time since the country fell to the Taliban, meeting the group’s senior leaders in Kabul t…
‘I don’t know where to go’: uncertain fate of the women in Kabul’s shelters
Women in refuges have been sent home to their abusers or to prison since the Taliban takeover. Those in the few shelters still open fear what lies aheadZari was seven years old when her parents died, forcing her to move in with her uncle. But when he d…
Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan
Analysis: Senators’ questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failuresThe deeply partisan US Congress is rarely a conducive place for national introspection and Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal d…
The Guardian view on Afghanistan: the dilemma for donors | Editorial
The Taliban are showing their true colours. The people face a desperate struggle for basic rights – and for survivalEven as the Taliban swept into Kabul in August – and even given their record in other parts of Afghanistan – some clung to hope, suggest…
ICC asked to relaunch inquiry into Taliban and IS ‘war crimes’
Move shows court’s determination to investigate contemporary as well as past crimes against humanityThe international criminal court’s new prosecutor has asked the court to relaunch an inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity committed by the Tali…
‘Necessary for security’: veteran Taliban enforcer says amputations will resume
Nooruddin Turabi, prisons minister in the new Afghan government, says executions and removal of hands will restart, but possibly not in publicOne of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they…
‘We buried our sportswear’: Afghan women fear fight is over for martial arts
Female taekwondo and karate trainers are forced to practise in secret since the Taliban takeover and fear they may never compete againOn the morning of 15 August, when the Taliban were at the gates of Kabul, Soraya, a martial arts trainer in the Afghan…
Zahra Joya: the Afghan reporter who fled the Taliban – and kept telling the truth about women
As a child in Afghanistan, she pretended to be a boy in order to get an education, before starting her own women’s news agency. Now living in Britain, her fight continuesJust over a month ago, Zahra Joya left her house in Kabul to walk to her office, a…