The Interior Ministry of the Taliban government confirmed on January 7 that ongoing clashes between officials of a contracting gold-mining company and residents of Chah Ab district in Takhar province that started last week left four people dead and five others wounded.
New photos from Afghanistan show a Taliban law banning images of people and animals is now being enforced across most of the country, resulting in seafood censored from menus, blacked-out museum displays, and covered mannequins.
China and Pakistan announced on January 7 the creation of a new unit to stop a rise in attacks targeting Chinese nationals, but experts and insiders who spoke to RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal say that the damage to Islamabad’s relationship with Beijing may already be beyond repair.
More than a month after five Chinese nationals were killed in two cross-border attacks, no group has claimed responsibility, raising concerns in Beijing.
From Sarajevo to Grozny to Kabul, three young adults reflect on childhoods shaped by conflict -- and the hopes they carry today.
Two months ago, Afghanistan sealed its eastern border with neighboring Pakistan soon after Islamabad shut down all routes into the landlocked country. But the longest border closure is now wreaking economic havoc in both countries.
Ikramuddin Saree, a former police commander in Afghanistan's Takhar and Baghlan provinces under the pre-Taliban republic, was shot dead on the evening of December 24 outside his office in Tehran.
A number of Afghan cultural figures and filmmakers consider the destruction of the historic Ariana Cinema by the Taliban government to be an erasure of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. A shopping mall will reportedly replace it. Built in the 1960s, the Kabul cinema attracted film fans for decades.
The Taliban has arrested four young Afghan men for "promoting alien culture” because they wore outfits like those of the leading male characters in the British historical crime drama Peaky Blinders.
Iranian border guards shot and killed at least 10 Afghans who entered Iran illegally in early December, according to Taliban officials. The incident underscored how dangerous the Iranian border has become for Afghans.
Iranian border guards shot and killed at least 10 Afghans who entered Iran illegally in early December amid a growing crackdown.
The past year was another bleak one for journalists, with dozens killed and hundreds more behind bars around the world, according to media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders
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