A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after strong quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened entire villages in the same region.
Canberra is home to more than 110 diplomatic missions but none are more resolute in continued diplomacy than the Embassy of Afghanistan, operating without government guidance or financial support since the country fell to the Taliban in 2021.
The sanctimonious manner in which certain journalists are reporting the outcome of the defamation case brought by Ben Roberts-Smith is a matter of great concern to Hugh Poate, father of Private Robert Poate, the only soldier from Canberra killed during the Afghanistan War.
Rashid Khan is considering his future in the BBL amid a furious reaction from Afghanistan cricket over Australia's withdrawal from an ODI series in March.
At least 20 people have been killed in flash floods in central Afghanistan over the past 48 hours, with heavy rain destroying thousands of homes and damaging agricultural land.
To mark Afghanistan’s National Day and the anniversary of the fall of Kabul, Fred Smith and band, in cooperation with the Afghan Embassy, will be presenting Sparrows of Kabul, the final iteration of Smith’s Afghanistan song cycle, at the National Press Club, on Friday 19 August.
Pakistan has fired off a sharp warning to Afghanistan's hard-line religious rulers to stop sheltering homegrown Pakistani Taliban militants who have staged increasingly deadly attacks.
Ben Roberts-Smith punched a soldier in the face after a mission in Afghanistan, the trooper has told a defamation trial brought on by the decorated war hero.
Officials have vowed to hunt down and arrest the masterminds behind a deadly mosque attack in Pakistan claimed by an Islamic State affiliate. The assault killed at least 63 people and wounded nearly 200.
An SAS soldier has testified Ben Roberts-Smith bragged that blowing the brains out of a trembling and unarmed Afghan man was "the most beautiful thing".
Taliban fighters have summarily killed or forcibly "disappeared" more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch says.
