The Taliban’s internet blackout is not a moral safeguard but a deliberate act of digital repression that severs access to education, silences women, cripples institutions, and isolates Afghanistan from the world, writes Mohammad Reza Mirzai. Read here: kabulnow.com/2025/09/afghan…

The Taliban on Sunday released American citizen Amir Amiri after 9 months of detention in Kabul. Read more: kabulnow.com/2025/09/taliba…

Despite the Taliban’s repeated claims of a “general amnesty”, reports of arrests, disappearances, and killings of ex-soldiers have continued over the past four years. Read more: kabulnow.com/2025/09/taliba…

The Taliban have cut off fiber-optic internet services in Kabul, expanding a nationwide blackout that has already crippled connectivity across multiple provinces. Read more: kabulnow.com/2025/09/taliba…

Afghanistan has been plunged into a digital blackout after the Taliban ordered the suspension of internet services nationwide and mobile networks also began to collapse, cutting off nearly all communication with the outside world. Read more: kabulnow.com/2025/09/taliba…

Tom Kmiec, Deputy Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, has marked Hazara Genocide Memorial Day by saying that Hazaras in Afghanistan continue to endure persecution and targeted violence more than a century after Amir Abdur Rahman Khan’s brutal campaigns. Read more:

Local sources in southern Helmand province reported that a businessman was stabbed to death by unknown assailants, the latest in a series of reported killings across Afghanistan in recent days. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47685

The UN mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has called on the Taliban to immediately restore internet and telecommunications services across Afghanistan, warning that the ongoing blackout is cutting the country off from the outside world and putting lives at risk. Read more:

The Taliban continue to recruit children as soldiers and, in some cases, force boys into sexual slavery, including the practice of bacha bazi, despite official bans, the U.S. State Department said in its 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47696

Amnesty International has condemned the Taliban’s nationwide internet shutdown in Afghanistan, calling it a “reckless” move that is preventing the world from learning about ongoing human rights violations. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47700

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that the Taliban’s nationwide internet shutdown is causing severe harm to people’s rights and livelihoods in Afghanistan, cutting off vital services and worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47705

Iran has executed at least 1,000 people since January 2025, including 58 Afghan nationals, one of them a woman, UN experts said, raising concern over a sharp rise in the country’s use of the death penalty. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47709

Internet and telecommunication services have partially resumed in Kabul and several provinces after a two-day nationwide blackout, local sources confirmed on Wednesday. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47711

Pakistani forces killed 13 militants in two separate operations in Balochistan province, near the Afghan border, the military said on Wednesday, as Islamabad steps up counterterrorism efforts in its restive northwest regions. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47716

Severe restrictions on women and girls, the closure of women’s shelters, and the dismantling of legal protections have left many more vulnerable to violence. Read more: kabulnow.com/2025/10/man-ki…

Representatives from the European Union and 13 countries have raised alarm over the continued threat of terrorism emanating from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s escalating repression of human rights, particularly those of women and girls. Read more: kabulnow.com/2025/10/eu-and…

The United Nations Security Council has granted a travel exemption to Amir Khan Mottaqi, the Taliban’s acting foreign minister, allowing him to visit New Delhi from October 9 to 16. Read more: kabulnow.com/2025/10/unsc-g…

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a cleric and mosque imam in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, local sources said, amid a recent surge in targeted and mysterious killings across the country. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47802

The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) has condemned the Taliban’s forced confession of imprisoned journalist Mehdi Ansari, calling it a clear violation of his rights and the principles of a fair trial. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47806

A Taliban member has been killed in clashes with Pakistani security forces near the border in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, local sources said on Friday, marking the latest incident along the disputed frontier. Read more: kabulnow.com/?p=47813