AFGHANISTAN

At least 1,000 people have died in Afghanistan's worst earthquake in two decades

Afghanistan Earthquake Afghan girl carries a donated matrace after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Friday, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi (Ebrahim Noroozi)GAYAN, Afghanistan — (AP) — When the ground heaved from last week’s earthquake in Afghanistan, Nahim Gul’s stone-and-mud house collapsed on top of him. Now, days after a 6 magnitude quake that devastated a remote region of southeast Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people and injured hundreds more, Gul sees destruction everywhere and help in short supply. His niece and nephew were also killed in the quake, crushed by the walls of their house. The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment said on Sunday it had raised over $1.5 million for Pakitka and Khost provinces.

Villagers see destruction everywhere and help in short supply days after an earthquake devastated a remote region of southeast Afghanistan and killed at least 1,150 people

(National Disaster Management Authority via AP) (Uncredited)GAYAN, Afghanistan — (AP) — Afghanistan’s deadly earthquake this week struck one of the poorest corners of a country that has been hollowed out by increasing poverty. Every single of the nearly two dozen homes in one village, Miradin, were reduced to rubble by Wednesday’s quake. Either toll would make the quake Afghanistan’s deadliest in two decades. Rutted roads through the mountains, already slow to drive on, were made worse by quake damage and rain. Aid groups said that while they are rushing to help the quake victims, keeping Afghanistan just above catastrophe through humanitarian programs is not sustainable.

Mansoor Ahmad Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador in the Afghan capital of Kabul, said relief goods dispatched by Pakistan on Saturday were handed over to Taliban officials. Earlier, Pakistan’s government and a Pakistani charity had sent 13 trucks carrying food, tents, life saving medicines and other essential items to Afghanistan. Officials said Pakistan has opened its border in the northwest to transport critically injured Afghans to hospitals in Pakistan. Also on Saturday, an Afghan military chopper transported food and other necessities to people in Gayan district in Paktika province. The aid organization said it would distribute relief items to around 1,000 families in the district, including food, tents and clothes.

Officials say a Pakistani military cargo plane carrying relief goods for Afghanistan’s earthquake-affected people has landed at the Khost airport

New relief supplies rolled into eastern Afghanistan after this week's powerful earthquake that state media said killed at least 1,150.

(Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Taliban militants distribute bread in Paktika province. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Villagers remove rubble of a destroyed house in Paktika province. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Aslad Khan, 40, recovers in a hospital in Urgun after 15 members of his family were killed in the earthquake. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Paktika has been one of the country’s most neglected provinces for decades. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The Washington Post)Haq Nawaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

Afghanistan Earthquake Afghans stand by the bodies of relatives killed in an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Humanitarian aid organization Direct Relief says its shipment of 1 million doses of donated prenatal vitamins is still being held by customs weeks after it arrived in the country. Direct Relief says it has offered the World Health Organization’s Afghanistan office emergency medicines and supplies needed for trauma care. The World Food Programme reported it has sent at least 18 trucks carrying emergency supplies to the area near the quake's epicenter. For those looking to donate to help those affected by the Afghanistan earthquake, McIlreavy, of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, said focusing on groups currently working in Afghanistan would be important.

Donations for Afghanistan earthquake victims will face far more hurdles than other disasters, due to sanctions against the country’s Taliban government and its troubled relationship with Western nations, experts say.

Afghanistan Earthquake A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Among the dead from Wednesday's magnitude 6 quake are 121 children, but that figure is expected to climb, said Mohamed Ayoya, UNICEF's representative in Afghanistan. Thousands of stone and mud-brick homes crumbled in the quake, which struck at night, often trapping whole families in the rubble. The Taliban director of the Bakhtar News Agency said Friday the death toll from the first quake had risen to 1,150 people. Either grim toll would make the quake Afghanistan’s deadliest in two decades.

The magnitude six quake is the country's deadliest in two decades.

Authorities said the death toll from the major temblor -- the nation's deadliest in two decades -- reached 1,150 -- the poverty-gripped nation's deadliest temblor in two decades.

Researchers are building algorithmic tools to better predict earthquakes and give people more time to flee. But structural challenges remain.

Afghanistan Earthquake A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Pakistan’s Meteorological Department reported a 4.2 magnitude quake in southeastern Afghanistan that state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported took five more lives in hard-hit Gayan District and injured 11 people. Still, residents appeared to be largely on their own to deal with the aftermath as their new Taliban-led government and the international aid community struggle to bring in help. The Taliban director of the Bakhtar agency said Friday the death toll had risen to 1,150 people from previous reports of 1,000 killed. Many international aid agencies withdrew from Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power last August.

Afghanistan Earthquake A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi) (Ebrahim Noroozi)GAYAN, Afghanistan — (AP) — State media say at least five people were killed when another, smaller earthquake struck an area of eastern Afghanistan that experienced a devastating quake earlier this week. The state-run Bakhtar News Agency said the quake shook Paktika’s Gayan District on Friday morning. Still, residents appeared to be largely on their own to deal with the aftermath as their new Taliban-led government and the international aid community struggle to bring in help. Many international aid agencies withdrew from Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power last August.

The Taliban director of the state-run Bakhtar News Agency said Friday the death toll had risen to 1,150 people from previous reports of 1,000 killed. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has put the death toll at 770 people. It’s not clear how death toll counts are being reached, given the difficulties of accessing and communicating with the impacted villages. Either grim toll would make the quake Afghanistan’s deadliest in two decades. Trucks of food and other necessities arrived from Pakistan, and planes full of humanitarian aid landed from Iran and Qatar.

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Afghanistan continued to climb days after it turned brick and stone homes into rubble

An aftershock has taken more lives and threatened to pile even more misery on an area of eastern Afghanistan reeling from a powerful earthquake that state media said killed 1,150 people this week.

India has rushed emergency relief assistance and a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan

India has rushed emergency relief assistance and a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

India sent family tents, blankets and other relief supplies for a team to distribute in eastern Afghan villages where a deadly earthquake collapsed thousands of timber and stone homes to rubble. Pictures of the relief effort were accompanied by a tweet from India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar: “India, a true first responder.” The supplies total 27 tons delivered over two flights to Afghanistan's capital Kabul, where the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Afghan Red Crescent Society will coordinate its distribution, a ministry statement said Friday.

The tragedy of Wednesday’s earthquake is compounded by Afghanistan’s political isolation and economic unraveling.

Afghanistan Earthquake A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi) (Ebrahim Noroozi)NEW DELHI — (AP) — India said it sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that state media reported killed 1,000 people. A ministry statement on Thursday didn’t give details about the technical team or any relief material sent to Afghanistan. India was left with no diplomatic presence in Kabul after it evacuated its staff ahead of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year. Indian officials held talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan for the first time early this month to discuss the distribution of humanitarian assistance.

India has sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan

India has sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

Senior UN officials say the earthquake in Afghanistan has added another emergency facing the country, which is also confronting its worst drought in 30 years and massive poverty

Germany’s foreign minister says the government has got more than 21,000 former local employees and other endangered people out of Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power almost a year ago

The independent watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan is accusing the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development of illegally withholding information from it about the American withdrawal from the country last year. The State Department did not deny it had cut off cooperation with the watchdog. The department said the report was unfairly negative and did not represent the administration's view of the events surrounding the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban takeover. In his letters, Sopko was blunt, seeking immediate action from Congress, Blinken and Power to restore the cooperation his office has had with their agencies in the past. “Our view is that the report does not reflect the consensus view of the State Department or the U.S. government," Price told reporters.

The independent watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan is accusing the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development of illegally withholding information about the American withdrawal from the country.

The response is likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

The response is likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

The response is likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

APTOPIX Afghanistan Earthquake In this photo released by a state-run news agency Bakhtar, Afghans look at destruction caused by an earthquake in the province of Paktika, eastern Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Bakhtar News Agency via AP) (Uncredited)KABUL, Afghanistan — (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the deadliest temblors in decades, the state-run news agency reported. Experts put the depth at just 10 kilometers (6 miles) — another factor that could lead to severe destruction. Rescuers rushed to the area by helicopter Wednesday, but the response is likely to be complicated since many international aid agencies left Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. The death toll given by the Bakhtar News Agency was equal to that of a quake in 2002 in northern Afghanistan.

Afghanistan earthquake: 920 killed, hundreds hurt in 6.1 magnitude quake, reports say In this image taken from video from Bakhtar State News Agency, Taliban fighters secure a government helicopter to evacuate injured people in Gayan district, Paktika province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Bakhtar State News Agency via AP)KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 920 people are dead and 600 are hurt after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, an official said. >> Read more trending newsAccording to The Associated Press and Reuters, Sharafuddin Muslim, an Afghan emergency official, provided the figures in a news conference just hours after the strong quake struck about 28 miles southwest of Khost near the Pakistan border. Meanwhile, Ramiz Alakbarov, the United Nations’ resident coordinator in Afghanistan, tweeted that the agency is “assessing the needs and responding” in the quake’s aftermath. @OCHAAfg and @unafghanistan are assessing the needs and responding in the aftermath of the earthquake last night which has taken hundreds of lives.

The 5.9-magnitude earthquake sparked tremors that were felt in Pakistan and India.

The hardest hit areas were remote farming villages in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika.

KABUL, Afghanistan — (AP) — Afghanistan's state-run news agency is reporting that at least 155 people have been killed in an earthquake in the country’s eastern Paktika province. Information remained scarce otherwise on the magnitude 6 earthquake that struck. The Bakhtar news agency separately reported rescuers were arriving by helicopter. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

Afghanistan's state-run news agency reported a powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of the country's east, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake was reported near Khōst, Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter was further than 100 miles from a city.

CBS News meets a family dodging heat, downpours and the Taliban in a makeshift shelter in Islamabad, and blaming the "poorly executed American withdrawal" from Afghanistan.

The Taliban say they have released several British citizens who had been detained in Afghanistan after an agreement was reached between the two countries

The Foreign Office says the UK nationals' travel to Afghanistan was a "mistake" and against advice.

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The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul that killed at least one worshipper and wounded seven others

Several explosions and gunfire ripped through a Sikh temple in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning

A Taliban official says explosions and gunfire have ripped through a Sikh temple in Afghanistan’s capital

The United Nations has announced a new deputy special representative for Afghanistan, but it’s unclear how soon the world body may replace its top official there

A Taliban official says that an explosion ripped through a mosque in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, killing at least one worshipper and wounding seven others

As of today, more than 100 million people have been forced to flee their homes — more than 1 percent of humanity.

Congress Veterans Burn Pits FILE - An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011. The Senate is expected to approve on Thursday a large expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File) (Simon Klingert)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Senate on Thursday approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., described the bill as “the greatest advance in veterans health care in decades." Sen. Jon Tester, the chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, said the bill was “about righting a wrong that has been ignored too damn long."

The legislation will expand benefits for veterans injured by their exposure to military burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The U.N. representative in Afghanistan says her heart is breaking because of the harsh edicts that the Taliban have imposed on girls and women since they seized power in the country, denying them the right to education and work and forcing millions to stay at home

Congress Veterans Burn Pits FILE - An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011. The Senate is expected to approve on Thursday a large expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File) (Simon Klingert)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Senate is expected to approve on Thursday a large expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. But lawmakers said that stories from constituents tell a different and more definitive tale, and they are reluctant to wait for an irrefutable link between veterans' maladies and their exposure to toxic burn pits. Sen. Jon Tester, the chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, said the bill was “about righting a wrong that has been ignored too damn long."

The Senate has approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits.

More than 150 ex-embassy workers are in Afghanistan - some say they've been beaten and tortured.

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The Air Force has concluded that air crew members acted appropriately and were not at fault for some tragic deaths during the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan last year, when desperate Afghans clung to a military plane as it was taking off and fell to their deaths or were caught in the wheels.

An Iraqi man who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for more than 15 years has pleaded guilty to war crimes charges for his role in al-Qaida attacks against U.S. and allied forces along with civilians in Afghanistan.

Human Rights Watch says that Taliban security forces in northern Afghanistan have unlawfully detained and tortured residents accused of association with an opposition armed group.

A U.N. agency has issued a glum world forecast, saying that food import bills appear headed to a record high and food markets are likely to tighten.

The Taliban have detained a popular Afghan fashion model and three of his colleagues, accusing them of disrespecting Islam and the Quran, the Muslim holy book.

U.N. experts say Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are maintaining close ties with al-Qaida as they consolidate control over the country, and their main military threat is coming from the Islamic State extremist group and guerrilla-style attacks by former Afghan government security personnel.

Some Afghans who were evacuated from their country as it fell to the Taliban last summer have found their journey to the United States stalled at a cluster of tents and temporary housing at a military base in the Balkans.

An international rights group says that Bulgarian authorities are attacking Afghan and other asylum-seekers, using police dogs and other violence to illegally push them back over the border into Turkey.

The United Nations says that in Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children flow into hospital wards.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air.

Pakistan's new foreign minister says his country has resumed engagement with the United States after years of strained relations under former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Afghanistan's biggest media outlet says the country's Taliban rulers have ordered female TV presenters on all TV channels to cover their faces while on air.

Congressional bargainers have announced a deal on legislation to boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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A new Taliban decree that demands women cover up from head to toe in public, showing at most their eyes, has left many Afghans angry or fearful.

A U.S. advisory body says that Afghanistan should join a list of the world's worst violators of religious freedom.

A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school.

Explosions across Afghanistan have killed at least 10 people and wounded scores more.

An Afghan police spokesman says explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six civilians and injured 17 others.

Months of economic discontent in Pakistan have been capped by days of tense drama.

A rare video has appeared of al-Qaida’s chief praising an Indian Muslim woman who in February defied a ban on wearing the traditional headscarf, or hijab.

Afghan families evacuated to the United States when the Taliban regained power are celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country's Taliban leaders.

The head of the United Nations says nearly all Afghans don’t have enough to eat and some have resorted to “selling their children and their body parts” to get money for food.

China’s ambitions to have a major hand in Afghanistan under the Taliban while boosting its own stature are on display at multinational meetings hosted by Beijing.

Celebrated U.S. cellist Yo-Yo Ma has joined refugees from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in the Portuguese capital Lisbon for a performance of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Taliban hard-liners are turning back the clock in Afghanistan with a flurry of repressive edicts over the past days that hark back to their harsh rule from the late 1990s.

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A first group of Afghan refugees have arrived at a new temporary housing facility in Northern Virginia as the U.S. works to resettle people who fled the Taliban takeover of their country.

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The Taliban's acting interior minister says Taliban security police guilty of misconduct in Afghanistan are being penalized after many abuse allegations.

Pakistani police say a suicide bomber has struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least 56 worshippers and wounding 194 people, many of them critically.

The House has passed legislation that would dramatically boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Biden administration is seeking to assure financial institutions and other businesses that U.S. sanctions on the Taliban aren’t intended to interfere with trade that could help Afghanistan emerge from an economic and humanitarian crisis.