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UN extends mandate of special rapporteur on HR situation

Kabul (Khaama Press): The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) passed a resolution extending Richard Bennett’s appointment as the organization’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan for a...

Taliban PM offers amnesty to Afghans who fled country and urges them to return

KABUL: A top Taliban official said late on Sunday that all Afghans who fled the country after the collapse of the former Western-backed government are free to return home, promising they would not be harmed if they come back. ...

10-Jun-2025 Read More

Taliban hang up Kalashnikovs to pen memoirs of Afghan war

KABUL: Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan´s halls of power, some Taliban members have also swapped their weapons for pens to tell their version of the 20-year conflict with Western forces, who they accuse of distorti...

07-Jun-2025 Read More

UN sees ‘alarming’ surge in Afghan families deported from Iran

KABUL: The UN on Tuesday voiced concern over a surge in Afghan families deported from Iran, recording a more than two-fold increase in May from the previous month, as the rise in returnees squeeze´s Afghanistan´s resources. ...

04-Jun-2025 Read More

Russia accepts Taliban’s nominated ambassador to Moscow

KABUL: Russia has officially accepted the Taliban’s nomination of an ambassador to Moscow, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as economic and political ties grow between the two sanctions-hit nations. ...

02-Jun-2025 Read More

Refuge for journalists

Afghanistan's journalists have access to the news but not the freedom to report it. Fear grips them and others who want to exercise their right to free expression; they risk detention, abduction, torture and even murder in their...

01-Jun-2025 Read More