June 10, 2026, RAWANews: HERAT, Afghanistan — June 9, 2026: The western Afghan city of Herat witnessed one of the most significant anti-Taliban protests in recent months on Tuesday, June 9, after residents took to the streets in outrage over the detention of women and girls by the Taliban’s so-called Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The demonstrations began in Jebrail Township, a densely populated area of Herat, where hundreds of residents gathered to condemn the recent arrests of women and demand basic rights and freedoms. Protesters repeatedly chanted the slogans “Education, Work, Freedom” and “Bread, Work, Freedom”, calling for an end to the Taliban’s escalating repression and the immediate release of detainees.

June 1, 2026, BBC: As dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at a dusty square in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan.They line the roadside with weary faces, hoping someone will come along offering any work. It will determine whether their families eat that day.The likelihood of success, however, is low.Juma Khan, 45, has found just three days of work in the past six weeks that paid between 150 to 200 Afghani ($2.35-$3.13; £1.76-£2.34) per day.

May 8, 2026, Afghanistan Future: The wife of Salam Matftoon, a local singer, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, local sources said, in the latest in a series of killings reported across the country in recent days. Sources told, that that the incident happened early Thursday morning in Ishkashim district when Lailuma Maftoon was on her way to her restaurant. She reportedly owned a women-only restaurant in the district’s local market.

April 21, 2026, RAWA NEWS: The death of a woman identified as Liza in Kabul has ignited widespread concern, with her family alleging she was killed after years of domestic abuse, while her husband’s family claims she died by suicide. According to Liza’s father, Shamsuddin Shams, his daughter endured more than a decade of violence at the hands of her husband, Hasibullah Sarwari. He claims she had repeatedly shared details of physical abuse, including severe beatings, prior to her death.

April 16, 2026, Al-Jazeera: An earthquake in Afghanistan has killed eight members of the same family when their home collapsed in the Gosfand Dara area of Kabul province. Health Ministry spokesman Sharafat Zaman said on Saturday that a child aged around two years old was the only survivor. Afghanistan’s disaster management agency said the boy was injured. The 5.8-magnitude quake struck at 8:42pm local time on Friday at a depth of 186km. The epicentre was in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.