An orphaned baby bundled onto an evacuation flight from Afghanistan after her parents died in a bomb blast has been reunited with members of her family. Photo shows an Afghan toddler, named Maryam, undated. Maryam, who was bundled on to an evacuation flight from Kabul in 2021 after her parents…
A woman has been arrested after organising a press conference to announce the foundation of a women's rights movement in Afghanistan. Farhat Popalzai poses in an undated photo. Taliban intelligence reportedly arrested Farhat Popalzai, one of the founders of the Womens Movement in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Newsflash) Taliban intelligence a have…
Male journalists and news presenters in Afghanistan have been covering their faces with masks to protest a new Taliban ruling forcing women to cover their faces on air. The crackdown is the latest move by the Taliban to enforce fundamentalist Islam, where all women in public must be completely covered…
Afghanistan's Taliban government has executed former soldiers who fought against them, it has emerged. One - a former army officer identified only as Jamshid - was reportedly arrested at his home on 10th May and dragged before a kangaroo court. Despite an amnesty agreement, he was shot dead after being…
This young man from Afghanistan who fled to Turkey when the Taliban took control of Kabul dreaming of starting a cryptocurrency business is now living in a sewer. The youngster, named Muhammad Ali, whose exact age was not given managed to flee Afghanistan and enter Turkey, and he now lives…