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.
April 12, 2026, RAWA NEWS: A deadly shooting attack on civilians in western Afghanistan has left at least 11 people dead and several others wounded, highlighting ongoing security concerns in the country. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon in the Deh Miri area of Injil district, Herat province, where a group of civilians had gathered for leisure. According to local authorities, gunmen riding motorcycles opened fire on the group, many of whom were reportedly Shiite, including women and children.
March 31, 2026, RAWA NEWS: Local sources in Nuristan province say that as a result of gunfire attributed to Pakistani forces targeting a vehicle in Kamdesh district, a woman health worker and her three-year-old child have been killed, and three others injured. According to the sources, the incident occurred on the morning of 18th March in the Bagicha area of Kamdesh district
March 9, 2026, The Independent: A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law inequality based on gender and social status. The decree, which was signed by Afghanistan’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in January, “defines several crimes and punishments that contravene Afghanistan’s international legal obligations” U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said Thursday in remarks to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
February 26, 2026, RAWA NEWS: Local sources in Badakhshan Province say that a young woman has died by suicide in the city of Fayzabad, the provincial capital. A source in Fayzabad, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the young woman took her own life on the evening of February 15th in the Old City area of Fayzabad. According to the source, the 21-year-old woman ended her life by ingesting rat poison.
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