RFI    Brussels is bracing for a political storm as European Union officials consider hosting Taliban representatives in the Belgian capital for talks on...

RFI    The British government has imposed an emergency brake on visas for students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, in response to what it...

RFI    Australia has joined a growing chorus of anger - from France, the UK and Denmark, among others - over comments by US President Donald Trump...

RFI    The European Union confirmed on Monday it has initiated exploratory contacts with the Taliban government in Afghanistan as part of efforts to...

RFI    As Taliban forces hit back at Islamabad over alleged air raids inside Afghan territory, waves of refugees returning from Pakistan are struggling to...

Jan van der Made    In the wake of a series of earthquakes that have devastated eastern Afghanistan, the humanitarian response remains critically underfunded, with...

RFI    Communities in eastern Afghanistan are rallying together after a major earthquake levelled homes and villages, leaving hundreds dead and thousands...

RFI    Chela Noori, the founder and president of the Afghan Women of France organisation, was recently able to travel across Afghanistan for the first time...

Ollia Horton    Friday marks the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan following two decades of insurgency. France, like many countries,...

RFI    Millions of vulnerable people face heightened risk after the UN announced it would scale back aid programmes amid unprecedented global funding cuts....

Isabelle Martinetti    The harsh realities of Afghan women - barred from education, employment and public life under Taliban rule - are depicted in the Paris exhibition No...

RFI    French police say they have arrested a 22-year-old Afghan linked to a countryman in the United States suspected of planning an election day attack...

Ollia Horton    French photographer Sandra Calligaro has spent much of her career documenting the lives of ordinary people in Afghanistan, especially women and...

RFI    Paris prosecutors are investigating online threats against female Afghan taekwondo fighter Marzieh Hamidi, who fled to France in 2021 after the...

RFI    Marzieh Hamidi, a former taekwondo champion for Afghanistan who now lives in France as a refugee, has been placed under police protection after...

Ollia Horton    In an intimate and surprising series, French photographer Amandine Lauriol skilfully captures the multifaceted life of Marzieh Hamidi, a young...

RFI    French-Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, held in detention since January in Afghanistan, was freed after charges against him were dropped,...

RFI    The death toll from a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan rose sharply Sunday to more than 2,000 as rescuers scrabbled for survivors among...

Jessica Phelan with RFI    Activists in France have called on the government to systematically grant asylum to women and girls fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan, after the...

RFI    France has flown five Afghan women who had been threatened by the Taliban to Paris, where they are due to arrive this Monday.

RFI    The UN’s top expert on human rights in Afghanistan has urged countries to consider making gender apartheid an international crime, in a bid to hold...

RFI    The United Nations has announced that a record 110 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced from their homes, branding the massive...

RFI    Two years after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, the country’s citizens still lack pathways to safety in the European Union, a leading global...