The devastating earthquake that hit western Afghanistan's Herat province a year ago was a major challenge for the Taliban.

Survivors stopped counting ... and vulnerability to shocks like earthquakes and climate change. “At that time, the government really cooperated in transporting patients and the dead,” said ...

28, 2024 following a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Oct. 7, 2023. Credit: AP/Omid Haqjoo Charities had stepped in to build housing for survivors. But the accommodation they built lacks walls so there ...

Despite clear orders from the Supreme Court of Pakistan regarding the construction of New Bakrial City and the allotment of plots in Balakot city for earthquake survivors, these promises have yet ...

Amid promises of reconstruction that came to naught, survivors of the 2005 earthquake struggle with their personal traumas.

Nobody knows for sure how many people died in a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on Oct. 7 ... The U.N. gave a far lower figure of about 1,500. Survivors stopped counting, exhausted after digging through ...

Survivors stopped counting ... Ahmadullah Muttaqi, spokesman and member of the Herat Earthquake Commission, said authorities worked with charities and nongovernmental groups to provide shelter ...

Survivors stopped counting ... and vulnerability to shocks like earthquakes and climate change. Taliban codify morality laws requiring Afghan women to cover faces, men to grow beards “At ...