AFGANISTAN

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is leading an inter-agency assessment team deployed to Qadis District of Badghis Province in Afghanistan following the 5.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the area on Monday.

Atleast five people were killed in a blast in the western part of Kabul on Wednesday, Sputnik reported citing a source.

Deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities will allow between 100 and 150 Westerners, including Americans, to fly out from Kabul in the coming hours, Qatari officials said Thursday, marking the airport’s first such flight since US forces withdrew from the country.

Afghanistan’s Taliban Monday announced a three-day cease-fire for the Eid-al-Fitr holiday this week marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan