Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have called for international help after a huge earthquake killed hundreds and levelled entire villages, piling further misery on the war-ravaged country that was already grappling with food shortages and cuts to foreign aid.

Aid agencies say the international community must increase funding to Afghanistan. That's after a deadly earthquake killed at least 1,400 and injured thousands more.

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Malik, who led Save the Children’s Afghanistan team at the time, said the easiest way to understand the impact of the aid cuts is to compare the earthquake response to that of past disasters, notably Pakistan’s first mass expulsion of Afghans in late-2023.

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WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Nearly a week after an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people in Afghanistan and left tens of thousands homeless, the United States has not taken the first step to authorize emergency aid, and it was unclear if it plans to ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also expressed sorrow over the loss of life saying “India stands ready to provide all possible humanitarian aid.”

Wakil Kohsar/AFP/AFP Afghanistan was already facing severe crises when it was rocked by another devastating earthquake, but this time there are fewer resources to muster after foreign funding was slashed to the bone this year. Less international aid "means ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds more bodies have been recovered from houses in mountain villages destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan early this week, pushing the death toll to over 2,200, a Taliban government spokesman said Thursday.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the German Research Center for Geosciences said, the third tremor in the same region since Sunday, when one of the country's deadliest quakes in years killed ...