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21.09.2025
Trump threatens Afghanistan if Bagram base not handed back to US

US President Donald Trump threatened Afghanistan with unspecified "bad things" if it doesn't turn Bagram Airfield back to the United States, an action previously rejected by the country's Taliban rulers. … Trump has cited the base's proximity to China as a major reason for regaining US control of the facility, which was originally built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.

Source: RFE/RL
19.09.2025
Rescuers dodge dangers, women and girls face disaster, warns UN

The humanitarian response to the disaster has been hampered by the Taliban leadership’s ban on Afghan women staff members and contractors from entering UN compounds in the capital, Kabul, effective since 5 September. “The ban is impacting us because our women staff are not allowed to come to the office to work,” the UN Women representative said. 

Source: UN News
14.09.2025
Afghan Taliban claims prisoner exchange with US is imminent

Afghanistan’s de-facto Taliban rulers said they have reached an agreement with visiting US officials on an exchange of prisoners. … Following the September 13 meeting, the Taliban released photos of the meeting in Kabul involving US President Donald Trump's special envoy for hostage affairs, Adam Boehler, and Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.

Source: RFE/RL
12.09.2025
Lifesaving services cut as Taliban bars women aid workers

The ongoing humanitarian response to the devastating Afghanistan earthquake disaster continued on Friday, although essential services have been cut for operational reasons following reinforced Taliban restrictions on women working with the UN, the global body said. “All of us at the United Nations are suffering from a reinforcement of the ban on females working with us…We are simply unable to operate without females,” said Arafat Jamal, UNHCR Representative to Afghanistan.

Source: UN News
29.08.2025
Despite Taliban ban, over 90 per cent of Afghans support girls’ right to learn

Despite the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education, more than 90 per cent of Afghan adults support girls’ right to be in class, according to a new alert from the UN’s gender equality agency, UN Women. 

Source: UN News
20.08.2025
China FM in Afghanistan, offers to deepen cooperation with Taliban rulers

Mining, Belt and Road participation feature in trilateral meetings between China, Afghanistan and Pakistan in Kabul.

Source: Al Jazeera
10.08.2025
UN report says its female staff have received death threats

Explicit death threats have been made against dozens of Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan, according to a new UN report, where their rights have been severely curtailed since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

Source: Al Jazeera
15.07.2025
Thousands of Afghans brought to UK under secret programme after data leak

The United Kingdom set up a secret plan to resettle thousands of Afghans in Britain after an official accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban, court documents have showed.

Source: Al Jazeera
09.07.2025
ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders

The ICC said there were grounds to believe that supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, chief justice of the Taliban, had committed the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds against girls, women and "other persons non-conforming" with the Taliban's policy on gender, gender identity or expression, a statement from the UN court said. 

Source: Deutsche Welle
07.07.2025
UN calls on Taliban to end repressive policies

The UN General Assembly on Monday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution expressing deep concern over Afghanistan’s deteriorating humanitarian, economic and human rights conditions, urging the Taliban to reverse repressive policies and ensure inclusive governance. 

Source: UN News