The UN censures the Taliban's decision to impose an indefinite ban on female staff working for NGOs in Afghanistan.

More than 100 Afghan women students rallied in the western city of Herat on Sunday, protesting against a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom that killed dozens as they prepared for exams.

An explosion outside a mosque in Afghanistan has killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric and a number of civilians.

Unidentified gunmen have attacked a convoy of Taliban forces in western Afghanistan, leaving two dead and several others injured.

While it would be unfair to whitewash excesses committed by some fringe elements against Afghan refugees in Iran, it is sheer hyperbole to suggest that Afghan refugees in Iran are in any manner being exploited or terrorized.

Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran and Baghdad see eye to eye on the necessity of upholding the truce in Yemen.

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, have roundly denounced actions aimed at driving a wedge between the Iranian and Afghan people.