U.S. government officials’ planning around foreign assistance to aid-dependent Afghanistan has been thrown into disarray by the Taliban’s lightning-fast takeover of the embattled country.

At least half a dozen major foreign aid groups have said they are temporarily suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban barred female employees of non-governmental organizations ...

With foreign aid drying up since the Taliban takeover, the UN has warned that as much as 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is at risk of sinking below the poverty line.

Human Rights Watch interviewed Afghan and foreign aid officials, healthcare workers, and people seeking health care in 16 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces between February 2023 and January 2024.

One of the most frequently discussed budget items in the United States is the amount the country spends on foreign assistance ...

International aid groups say they plan to stay in Afghanistan to help the millions of people facing drought, COVID and conflict. The Taliban are working on new rules for humanitarian aid groups.

Many experts argue that foreign aid to Afghanistan, including the hundreds of millions provided annually by the US, has inadvertently helped the Taliban maintain control over the country.

In late 2020, foreign donors meeting in Geneva pledged $12 billion in aid to Afghanistan over the next four years, a 20 percent decline from the previous four years.

After lengthy legal and technical negotiations, the floodgates of foreign relief aid began to open last week. United Nations officials announced an extraordinary appeal for $4.5 billion in ...

Despite $775 million in humanitarian aid from the U.S. government since President Joe Biden’s disastrous pullout of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan a year ago, half the population—some ...

China might provide some infrastructure financing to Afghanistan, but it will not provide any of the “soft” foreign and humanitarian aid that Afghanistan desperately needs.