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Nineteen Afghan migrants have died after becoming stranded in the scorching deserts of Nimroz province while attempting an irregular border crossing into Iran, marking another devastating tragedy driven by Afghanistan's worsening humanitarian and economic crisis. The group was traveling through the remote Dasht-e Margo and Reg-e Lalo deserts, approximately 63 kilometers from the Milak border crossing, when their vehicle reportedly broke down in mid-July.

Bibi Sediqa, an ethnic Turkmen from a poor family in Badghis province, was arrested by the Taliban after refusing a forced marriage to Mawlawi Khodainazar, known as "Qazi," son of Abdul Rasul, an ethnic Pashtun who serves as a local Taliban commander. Sediqa has been held in Taliban custody under harsh conditions for 21 months.

A landmark independent inquiry has unearthed chilling new allegations of systematic abuse and extrajudicial killings by British Special Forces in Afghanistan. Testimony presented this week details a culture of horrifying violence, including claims that soldiers used heavy machinery to torture and drop unarmed detainees purely for entertainment. The proceedings at the Royal Courts of Justice are systematically dismantling the official narratives of the UK's military deployment in the Middle East.

Crowds attend funeral ceremonies for victims of the airstrike. At least 28 civilians were killed and dozens more injured after Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan’s eastern border provinces on Sunday. Afghan Taliban officials said the attacks hit civilian homes in Paktia, Paktika and Kunar.

Social media footage captures scenes from the June 9 protests in Herat, including demonstrators, wounded civilians, and individuals reportedly killed during the Taliban's violent suppression of the protest.

By Yogita Limaye Abdul Rashid Azimi says he is prepared to sell one of his daughters to feed the others As dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at a dusty square in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan. They line the roadside with weary faces, hoping someone will come along offering any work. It will determine whether their families eat that day. The likelihood of success, however, is low.

Local sources in Nuristan province say that as a result of gunfire attributed to Pakistani forces targeting a vehicle in Kamdesh district, a woman health worker and her three-year-old child have been killed, and three others injured. According to the sources, the incident occurred on the morning of 18th March in the Bagicha area of Kamdesh district. It is said that the health worker was on his way home for the Eid holiday when the vehicle carrying her came under fire.

The wife of Salam Matftoon, a local singer, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, local sources said, in the latest in a series of killings reported across the country in recent days. Sources told, that that the incident happened early Thursday morning in Ishkashim district when Lailuma Maftoon was on her way to her restaurant. She reportedly owned a women-only restaurant in the district’s local market.

The death of a woman identified as Liza in Kabul has ignited widespread concern, with her family alleging she was killed after years of domestic abuse, while her husband’s family claims she died by suicide. According to Liza’s father, Shamsuddin Shams, his daughter endured more than a decade of violence at the hands of her husband, Hasibullah Sarwari. He claims she had repeatedly shared details of physical abuse, including severe beatings, prior to her death.

An Afghan man clears rubble from the courtyard of his damaged house, in the aftermath of an earthquake at a village in the Khulm district of Samangan province An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the same family when their home collapsed in the Gosfand Dara area of Kabul province. Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman said on Saturday that a child aged around two years old was the only survivor. Afghanistan’s disaster management agency said the boy was injured.