Stories from South Asia
Afghans regularly take to the streets of Kabul to vent their anger but this week the capital witnessed a rare spectacle: protesters helping to clear up the mess they created. Hundreds of Shiite Hazaras demonstrated for two days in western […]
A Taliban bomb attack that targeted a British security firm in Kabul left at least 10 people dead and 19 wounded on Wednesday as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told a UN-sponsored conference of plans to seek a peace agreement with […]
Afghan authorities released a popular militia commander from the Hazara Shiite community on Monday after two days of protests sparked by his arrest. Abdul Ghani Alipoor’s release was announced by the office of Second Vice President Sarwar Danish, who is […]
Afghanistan’s Ghazni province is once again under fire. The Taliban, despite being in talks with several international stakeholders to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, laid siege earlier this month to Jaghori and Malistan, two relatively safer districts, forcing […]
The Uranus Wedding Hall in Kabul, a large structure with bright neon lights, sits amidst a line of equally colourful and vibrant buildings, facing the highway that leads to Kabul airport. The buildings’ bright and flashy exteriors, often accentuated by […]
A loud explosion close to a group of protesters in the Afghan capital of Kabul claimed at least four lives, and injured eight others on Monday. Several hundred residents had marched to and gathered near the Presidential Palace late on […]
The Taliban met with members of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council on Friday in a conference organised by the Russian government in Moscow. This is the second such meeting with the insurgent group being organised by international stakeholders in a bid […]
Seventeen years after launching its war to oust Taliban insurgents in Аfghanistan, the United States is discovering that an old adversary has wedged itself into the conflict: Russia. The foreign ministry in Moscow has announced it plans to host peace […]
Afghanistan concluded its much-delayed parliamentary election on October 27, amid insurgent attacks and logistical delays. More than 2,500 candidates were in the fray for 249 seats in Parliament. The final polling was held in the southern province of Kandahar, which saw […]