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In its latest report, Protection Eroded: The Human Cost of Underfunding, released on September 29, UNHCR said funding available for its work had dropped from $5.178 billion in 2024 to $3.932 billion in 2025 even as humanitarian needs remained high.
According to WFP, the worsening situation is being driven by a combination of aid cuts, conflict, rising food prices and supply chain disruptions, all of which have made it harder to deliver life-saving nutrition assistance to vulnerable communities across the country.
Afghanistan's Taliban government condemned the "cowardly act" and called it "a crime and atrocity". At least 100 people have been killed or wounded, Taliban officials told BBC Pashto.
Alia - whose name has been changed for her safety - is among a group of more than 1,100 people evacuated from Afghanistan by the US who are now stuck in limbo in Camp As-Sayliyah (CAS) in Doha.
The strikes came after the Afghan Taliban announced a major offensive against Pakistani military posts near the border on Thursday night.
Islamabad said the attacks targeted seven alleged militant camps and hideouts near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and that they had been launched after recent suicide bombings in Pakistan.
Police said a timely response prevented a larger tragedy. The attack comes amid rising militant violence and heightened tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan over cross-border insurgent activity.
Afghanistan's Taliban forces launched attacks on Pakistani troops along their shared border late on Saturday, in what it called "retaliation for air strikes carried out by the Pakistani army on Kabul" on Thursday.
The government began shutting down high-speed internet connections to some provinces earlier this month to prevent "immorality", on the orders of shadowy supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.
Some 140 books by women - including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" - were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies".
Many are feared trapped under the rubble of their homes after the magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck on Sunday near the country's border with Pakistan.
The earthquake struck 17 miles from the eastern city of Jalalabad near the border with Pakistan around midnight local time according to the U.S. Geological Survey.