Protests by Afghan refugees continue in Indonesia. With the new Australian Prime Minister's visit to Jakarta, the asylum seekers once again marched in protest of their misfortune.

Coinciding with World No Tobacco Day, Balkh security officials say efforts are underway to provide shelter and treatment for poppy fields in the province. Meanwhile, the number of drug addicts in Mazar-e-Sharif has decreased; but there is no budget for their treatment.

Afghanistan already has one of the worst literacy rates in the world and the new pandemic restrictions, which have kept about ten million students from classrooms, have started to reverse the country’s hard-won educational achievements made in the past 18 years. In the long run, such a gigantic backslide in education will be catastrophic for the country’s ...

Consecutive drought in the last three years – followed by a severe drought during the 2017/2018 wet season – hit almost two out of three provinces in Afghanistan, destabilizing the lives of vulnerable families and pressuring the adoption of negative coping strategies. The varied coping strategies include distress sale of productive assets (livestock ...

A Saudi little boy, while on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina with his Shia mother, has been barbarously killed for unknown reasons, fueling speculations that he could have been a sectarian and hate crime victim, media reports say.

Helmand civil society activists said civilian casualties must stop; otherwise, they said people will protest against it.

More than 54,000 people have been internally displaced by conflicts and militancy so far in 2018, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan (OCHA) said Tuesday, as fightings rage in difference places.

The chief human rights officer for the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), has welcomed recent changes to the country’s Penal Code which remove the “discretionary authority” of judges over so-called honour killings.