Watchdog warns Iran has enough nuclear material for ‘several’ bombs
Head of IAEA hoping to return to Tehran to reestablish dialogue with Iran after talks ground to a halt about five months ago...
IFJ condemns imprisonment of Afghan sports journalist
The International Federation of Journalists says neither the GDI nor the Taliban’s Nangarhar authorities have explained why Parhar was arrested...
Systems are failing women in Afghanistan, including Taliban courts
One young woman, who was forced into marrying a Taliban fighter, tells how abusive court officials are to women who file for divorce...
Afghanistan: Taliban set up cleric councils to solve its ‘social problems’
A Taliban spokesman said the group’s leader ordered the establishment of the new councils, which also aim to promote good governance in the country...
UN aid chief says next few weeks will tell if aid agencies can ‘stay and deliver’
Martin Griffiths appeals to Taliban to bend the rules on ban on women working for NGOs so that the humanitarian community can stay on in Afghanistan...
Germany confirms plans to give Ukraine tanks to fight off Russian invaders
Scholz has faced mounting pressure this week after Poland formally asked Germany to approve sending Leopard 2 tanks from Polish stocks to Ukraine...
Dostum’s palace falls into the hands of arch-nemesis Mullah Fazel
Afghanistan’s most notorious former warlord has had his prized palace taken over by an ex-Guantanamo inmate, whom he had handed over to the US in 2001...
Day of the Endangered Lawyer: Narrative of legal professionals
With a ban on women working, hundreds of female legal experts in Afghanistan have been ordered not to return to work under the Taliban’s ‘draconian’ new r...