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AFGHANISTAN: Number of children killed or injured in Afghanistan rose more than 55% in first half of 2021

'Devastating 48 hours for Afghanistan’s children'

'War on Children' Afghanistan Award winning Photography

AFGHANISTAN: ATTACK ON SAVE THE CHILDREN COMPOUND

Afghanistan school attack

A rolling wave of aftershocks in eastern Afghanistan is terrifying children who have lost families and homes in the country’s deadliest earthquake in nearly 30 years with the death toll rising to over 2,200.

Afghanistan needs the world’s help to fight COVID-19

SAVE THE CHILDREN COMMITTED TO PROTECTING CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN

SAVE THE CHILDREN CONCERNED HUNGER CRISIS IN AFGHANISTAN WILL ESCALATE

Explosion kills at least 15 children in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province

Explainer about the situation in Afghanistan since the flash floods that have left over 40,000 children homeless.

Afghanistan six months on: Children on the edge of life

AFGHANISTAN: Almost 80,000 children displaced in past two months

Flash floods in Baghlan in Northern Afghanistan have killed at least 200 people - including children.

Nine children killed by a single landmine in Afghanistan The children - five boys and four girls, all aged between 5 and 10 - found the decades old mi

The earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on 31 August last year was one of the deadliest to ever hit the country, killing more than 2,000 people and destroying or damaging more than 8,000 homes, forcing children and families into tents.

Snow and freezing temperatures have killed at least 60 people across Afghanistan, injured more than 100 and destroyed or damaged about 450 homes, according to the Afghanistan National Disaster Authority.

STATEMENT UPDATE: INCIDENT AT SAVE THE CHILDREN COMPOUND IN JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN

A year on from the Taliban takeover, read the stories of children and their families living in Afghanistan.

Mujib Ur Rehman Hamdard, the head of Save the Children Afghanistan's Kunar Field Office, shares his experience of the Afghanistan earthquake and the initial response one month on from the 6.0 magnitude earthquake which devastated parts of eastern Afghanistan, including Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, on the 1st September 2025.

A blog from a teacher working for Save the Children in Afghanistan on the recent ban on female aid workers

300,000 children face illness, even death from Afghanistan’s freezing winter conditions

AFGHANISTAN: Children made up a third of civilian casualties so far this year

Afghanistan: Roadside bomb kills six civilians and seriously injures three children

AFGHANISTAN: Save the Children resumes life-saving services for children in Kandahar

What does the future look like for the children who remain in Afghanistan?

Save the Children press release on IPC figures on hunger in Afghanistan

Child malnutrition cases rise nearly 50% in Afghanistan as hunger hits record levels

AFGHANISTAN: 18 civilians, including children, killed in air strikes in Kandahar

Save the Children and other agencies are deploying teams to the worst-hit areas to assess the damage and immediate needs of children and their families following the earthquake in Afghanistan.

As a ruthless 6.0-magnitude earthquake ripped through eastern Afghanistan this week, it flattened entire mountain villages and shattered the fragile lives of thousands, particularly children, who were already grappling with soaring humanitarian needs and funding cuts.

At the UN Afghanistan pledging summit, world leaders must step up for girls’ education

Four children die in flash floods as Afghanistan marks one year of Taliban rule

Save the Children hoping to resume life-saving services for children in Afghanistan soon

Save the Children press release following earthquake in Afghanistan

Save the Children and INGO statement on Afghanistan ban on UN women aid workers

AFGHANISTAN: Save the Children welcomes announcement that girls will be returning to secondary school

AFGHANISTAN: Price hikes push food out of reach for millions of children

Save the Children press release on families returning from Pakistan to Afghanistan

Alarmed and appalled: Civilian casualty data in Afghanistan highlight conflict’s brutal toll on children

UN MEETING ON AFGHANISTAN: 'More still needs to be done' says Save the Children

AFGHANISTAN: Fears for children injured and displaced in Kunduz, as families flee explosions

AFGHANISTAN: An additional 1.5 million children need help to survive in 2020, warns Save the Children

In Afghanistan, rains bring little relief for 12 million children struggling to recover from drought

Shocking new data: five children killed or maimed in Afghanistan every day for past 14 years

In this blog, Abdurahman Sharif, Save the Children’s Senior Humanitarian Director, shares a powerful firsthand account from Afghanistan, highlighting the urgent needs of returning families and children. With services at risk from aid cuts, he calls for immediate support and long-term investment to protect lives and secure futures.

“This house killed my sister”: Children terrified of returning to their homes in earthquake-hit Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Nearly three in ten children forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, new figures show.

Eight million people in Afghanistan are cut off from food aid and the international community must step up

AFGHANISTAN: A fifth of starving families sending children to work as incomes plummet in past six months

As schools across Afghanistan prepare for the new academic year next week, secondary school aged girls must be allowed to go back to the classroom aft

A JOINT INGO press release on the situation in Afghanistan after the ban of female staff from working with NGOs.

Flash floods in Afghanistan damage houses and kills livestock and people

80% of secondary school girls in Afghanistan missing out on education, one month since Taliban ban extended

At least 400 people have been killed and 250 others injured, following an attack at a hospital facility in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, according to the country's defacto authorities.

Afghanistan’s children are paying the price of global COVID-19 vaccine rollout failures, warns Save the Children

Floods from heavy rains have killed about 40 people in eastern Afghanistan and about 1,500 children have lost their homes Save the Children said.

More than a third of children surveyed in Afghanistan pushed into child labour

AFGHANISTAN: Health system collapse will result in thousands of additional child deaths each month – Save the Children

Major outbreak of disease escalating in camps as 250,000 people, mostly children, return to Afghanistan from Pakistan

AFGHANISTAN: Desperate mother agreed to sell her unborn baby as debt-ridden families are pushed to crisis point

COVID-19: An additional three million children in Afghanistan need help to survive in 2020, warns Save the Children

The Nutrition Cluster in Afghanistan - a group of humanitarian organisations which includes Save the Children - estimates that about 37,000 children under five and 10,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are facing acute malnutrition in the earthquake-affected areas where more than 91,000 people need nutrition support

Save the Children has suspended its operations in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s announcement that women are banned from working for INGOs.

Afghanistan: Two babies born every minute as health system nears collapse in first 100 days of Taliban rule

A warmer-than-average winter and lack of snow are ominous signs of worsening climatic and drought conditions in Afghanistan.

AFGHANISTAN: World must not turn its back on hungry Afghan children, warns Save the Children ahead of UN meeting

AFGHANISTAN: Thousands of children losing access to education as schools are caught in crossfire in escalation of violence

The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck in the early hours of Monday, with the epicentre in Samangan province, an hour from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Severe shaking was also felt in the capital, Kabul, with tremors reported as far away as Pakistan. The tremors caused panic and terror for children and their families, forcing them to run from their homes in provinces across northern Afghanistan where temperatures are dropping as winter sets in.

STATEMENT: Save the Children shocked by reports that girls in Afghanistan will not be allowed back to school