Afghanistan

Officials warned that the already grim toll may still rise. In March the Taliban government in Afghanistan went back on its promise to allow girls sixth grade and up.

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. The majority of confirmed deaths were in the province of Paktika where 100 people were killed and 250 injured said Mohammad Nassim Haqqani the head of the Taliban administrations disaster. 8 hours agoKABUL Afghanistan AP A powerful earthquake struck a rural mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border killing at least 920 people and injuring another 600 others. More than 1000 people have been killed and at least 1500 injured in Afghanistan after a magnitude 59 earthquake struck the countrys eastern region according to a regional official. Afghan charity educating girls amid Taliban school ban.

Western aid has been suspended because the Taliban government includes designated terrorists. 3 hours agoKabul Afghanistan A powerful earthquake struck a rural mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday killing 1000 people and injuring 1500 more in one of the deadliest quakes in. 13 hours agoAn earthquake of magnitude 61 that rocked Afghanistan has killed at least 130 people in the countrys east disaster management officials said on Wednesday. American troops in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in Kunar Province.

7 hours agoKABUL Afghanistan At least 1000 people were killed and more than 1500 others injured after a 59-magnitude earthquake struck a remote and mountainous region of southeastern Afghanistan near. Pictures being shared on social media showed injured people on stretchers rubble and destruction of. And millions of Afghans face acute malnutrition and starvation in the coming months. 13 hours agoA powerful earthquake has killed at least 250 people and left scores injured in Afghanistan.

The quake struck about 27 miles 44km from the city of Khost close to the. Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The Afghan economy has no cash to pay salaries or buy food. War in Afghanistan 20012021 Part of the Global War on Terrorism and the Afghanistan conflict 1978present.

13 hours agoPowerful quake struck early in the morning near the town of Khost south of the capital Kabul A 61 magnitude earthquake has struck southern Afghanistan killing at least 255 people according to. Afghanistan landlocked multiethnic country located in the heart of south-central Asia. Afghan and American soldiers move. 7 hours agoKABUL Afghanistan AP A powerful earthquake struck a rural mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday killing 1000 people and injuring 1500 more in one of the deadliest.

One of our mobile health teams thats been running for three or four years in Kandahar told us theyd. Afghanistan is now facing one of the worlds worst humanitarian crises. Afghanistan rocked by series of explosions 11 killed At least 11 killed in a series of separate explosions that hit a mosque in Kabul and vehicles in Mazar-i. KABUL Afghanistan AP A powerful earthquake struck a rural mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday killing 1000 people and injuring 1500 more in one of the deadliest quakes in decades the state-run news agency reported.

An American fighter aircraft dropping JDAMs on a cave in eastern Afghanistan. A massive measles outbreak in Afghanistan threatens to bring whats left of the countrys health system to its knees while putting an unsustainable burden on humanitarian agencies to fill the gaps according to aid workers. An Afghan soldier surveying atop a Humvee. They have known generations of war and hardship.

The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian Empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. 13 hours agoAt least 255 people have been killed after a 61 magnitude earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan officials have said. A brief experiment in increased democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 communist countercoup. 12 hours agoMountainous Afghanistan and the larger region of South Asia along the Hindu Kush mountains where the Indian tectonic plate collides with the Eurasian plate to the north has long been vulnerable.

Afghans are a proud people with a rich cultural heritage.