Emergency crews made a series of dramatic rescues in Turkey on Friday, pulling several people from the rubble four days after a catastrophic 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed...
The UN warned all its member states that 70% of the people in Afghanistan are facing extreme hunger and need aid, while six million are facing...
The Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, in cooperation with the missions of Canada and the United Kingdom, organised an expanded...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says that the distribution of cash aid to the needy is very important during this year’s extremely harsh winter....
Malnutrition rates in Afghanistan have reached record highs with half the country enduring severe hunger throughout the year, a spokesman for the World Food Program said...
The Deputy Special Representative, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov, has condemned the burning of a copy of the Holy Quran in Sweden. Alakbarov...
The United Nations is pushing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) administration for more exemptions to its ban on most female aid workers, top U.N. officials...
The Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, met with Martin Griffiths, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, on Wednesday...
The UN has apologized for a photograph of some of its staff in front of an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) flag taken during a visit...
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammad expressed alarm to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials in Kandahar over the situation of women’s rights in Afghanistan, the United...
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, along with a UN delegation, met with Abdul Salam Hanafi, the deputy prime minister of the Islamic...
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said Wednesday the international community has not done anything to warrant him convincing the IEA...
The highest-ranking woman in the United Nations arrived in Kabul on Tuesday at the head of a delegation promoting the rights of women and girls, a...
Pakistan has expressed concern over what it says is an increase in militancy along the border with Afghanistan. Speaking to Newsweek, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the...
The UN’s lead humanitarian coordinator has said UN-supplied aid cannot continue if the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) does not lift its ban on women working...
The United Nations Security Council is due to meet privately next week to discuss a decision by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to ban female...
UN deputy envoy in Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, on Sunday met with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Affairs, Abdul Salam Hanafi,...
A major increase in the delivery of humanitarian assistance in the past year has prevented famine in Afghanistan, the United Nations said on Tuesday. “A major...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hizb-i-Islami, has called on the United Nations to let Afghanistan’s seat stay empty if it cannot be given to the Islamic Emirate....