Iran urges all Afghan groups to come together for sake of peace
Iran has called on Afghan groups to use the U.S. withdrawal as an opportunity to restore peace to their homeland, saying Afghanistan’s history shows that...
The Taliban’s war on drug addiction [Short film]
Deputy editor of 5Pillars, Dilly Hussain, visited the largest drug rehabilitation centre in Afghanistan to see how the Taliban government is dealing with the...
Who Are Afghanistan’s ‘Morality Police’? [Short Film]
Deputy editor of 5Pillars, Dilly Hussain, accompanies Afghanistan’s controversial ‘morality police’ on one of their shifts in Kabul. In this short film, Dilly looks...
At least 400 killed in Pakistani attack on Afghan drug rehabilitation centre
Afghanistan has accused Pakistan’s military of launching an airstrike on a hospital where thousands of drug users were being treated, which has killed at...
Afghanistan–Pakistan border clashes continue, dozens killed in new attack
Hostilities between Pakistani and Afghan forces continue to deepen as clashes broke out once again, with reports of 12 Afghan civilians dead and a...
Dozens killed in explosion outside Kabul airport
Two explosions have killed at least 40 people, including three U.S. soldiers, and wounded 120 outside Kabul’s airport.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said one blast occurred...
Afghanistan cracks down on opium production
Afghan farmers, who once cultivated opium poppies, are now harvesting roses.
In the Dara-I-Nur district of Nangarhar, approximately 700 to 800 farmers have embraced the...
Iran criticised for harsh mass deportations of Afghans
Iran has faced criticism for the "undignified" large-scale expulsions of hundreds of thousands of Afghans during the height of summer, in a policy that...
Did UK Special Forces execute unarmed civilians in Afghanistan?
It has emerged that the government withheld evidence from a court which suggested that SAS soldiers had executed 33 civilians in Afghanistan in early 2011.
The Guardian reports...
At least 800 dead in Afghanistan earthquake
The death toll from a 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on late Sunday, when most of the residents were asleep, has...
