The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Sunday that it has created 140 community-based educational classes for children in Khost and Paktika provinces. UNICEF said...
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency announced the start of a more than US$14 million community-based construction effort to build 2,300 earthquake-resilient houses to help residents in...
At least 20 people were injured and 600 houses were damaged in Monday’s 5.1-magnitude earthquake in Khost’s Spera and Paktika’s Giyan districts, the Ministry of State...
Just hours after a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit Khost province, a third earthquake of 4.8 was recorded in northern Badakhshan on Monday night, the United States...
Thousands of Afghans in Paktika province say they face an uncertain future and have no idea how their communities will rebuild their lives after last month’s...
Some of the victims of the recent earthquake in Paktika have said the aid distribution process is unfair and that only a limited amount of aid...
Prime minister of Pakistan-administered Kashmir has approved 100 million rupees ($484,000) for last week’s earthquake victims in Afghanistan, it was reported Thursday. Kashmir’s cabinet and top...
The United Nations on Monday launched an emergency appeal for $110 million to provide lifesaving assistance to more than 360,000 Afghans who were affected by last...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi on Monday in a phone conversation and reaffirmed support for the victims of...
A top UN official in Afghanistan appealed on Sunday for greater international aid for the country, after he visited communities affected by last week’s devastating earthquake....
Afghanistan’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has called on international governments to roll back sanctions and lift a freeze on central bank assets following the earthquake...
The United Nations children’s agency said on Friday 121 of those who were killed in the 6.1-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan this week were children. Mohamed Ayoya,...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday dispatched eight trucks loaded with relief goods for earthquake victims in Afghanistan. According to a statement issued by the...
Scenes of utter devastation continued to emerge Friday in the remote Gayan district of Paktika province, as emergency efforts to treat the injured and provide essential...
Five people were killed in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province in a 4.3-magnitude earthquake on Friday morning, two days after another quake left over 1,000 people dead...
Villagers rushed to bury the dead on Thursday and dug through rubble by hand in search of survivors following Wednesday’s deadly 6.1 magnitude earthquake that has...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has deployed food and logistics equipment to support communities devasted by the June 22 earthquake that struck near the...
World leaders and governments expressed their shock and grief following the powerful magnitude-6.1 earthquake that rocked south-east Afghanistan, killing over a thousand people in the early...
Paktika’s provincial health director Dr Hekmatullah Esmat said early Thursday they are desperate for humanitarian aid to assist survivors of Wednesday’s deadly 6.1 magnitude earthquake that...
In response to Wednesday’s deadly earthquake that hit the south-eastern provinces of Paktika and Khost in Afghanistan, the Bayat Foundation launched an urgent international appeal for...