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As adland wraps its final day at the Cannes Lions festival, news broke in the US that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision granting the constitutional right to abortion. The news comes after a draft majority opinion was leaked in May, which galvanized thousands to rally in demonstrations nationwide. Leading agency executives, some of them women and mothers, shared their immediate thoughts on the decision with The Drum.

In-depth: Seeking international legitimacy the Taliban has announced a ban on the cultivation of poppies, but there are doubts as to whether the fundamentalist group is able, or willing, to maintain it.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A series of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban...

This week's Gandhara Briefing brings you insights into the IS-K's ambitions to instigate a regional war against the Afghan Taliban, Pakistan's efforts to revive peace talks with the TTP, and why prohibitive marriage costs prevent some Afghan men from getting married.

IS-Ks primary aim is to prevent the Taliban from transitioning into a [functional] government from an insurgency

This week’s Gandhara Briefing brings you insights on how the Islamic State-Khorasan’s relentless attacks are undermining the Taliban’s claims of establishing security, why Afghanistan’s leading broadcaster is embracing Taliban restrictions, and the first Afghan Eid al-Fitr under the Taliban.

Two explosions have killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in an apparent coordinated attack on two minibuses in Afghanistan's northern province of Balkh.

Afghanistan is reeling from a series of explosions in recent days, including the bombing of a mosque in northern Kunduz province on Friday that killed 33 people.

Forty-three devotees were wounded in the explosion in the the Imam Saheb town of the country’s Kunduz province.

Uzbekistan has rejected claims by a regional affiliate of Islamic State that it carried out a rocket attack on the Central Asian nation from neighboring Afghanistan.