Afghanistan crisis tracker
What is happening in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan under the Taliban: humanitarian crisis, women's rights, Pakistan border strikes, key actors, a sourced timeline, what to watch and monthly data.
This tracker reports the latest available monthly humanitarian conflict summary for Afghanistan, aggregated from subnational records. Economic collapse, returnee flows and restrictions on women are central to the humanitarian picture and are not captured by conflict-event counts.
Latest maintained month
Country conflict pulse
Metrics are country-level records for the latest available HAPI/HDX reference month. Missing countries are unavailable, not zero. A combined total is withheld when reference periods differ.
- Afghanistan
81 events · 100 fatalities · 2026-10-01
Maintained month snapshot
This page records the committed 2026-10-01 HAPI/HDX country summaries published November 2, 2026. JavaScript can refresh newer values; the numbers above remain available without it.
Source: SUZU Monitor weekly pulse snapshot, November 2, 2026. Combined totals are withheld when covered countries report different reference months.
Background
The Taliban reached Kabul on 15 August 2021; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged 'utmost restraint' and said women's hard-won rights must be protected. On 20 December 2022 the authorities barred women from universities and on 24 December ordered NGOs to stop female staff working, prompting Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE to suspend programmes. By August 2026 UN agencies counted more than 100 decrees restricting women and an estimated 2.4 million girls excluded from secondary education. Sources: UN News (1, 2), Al Jazeera.
Economic contraction and mass returns, not fighting, drive humanitarian need. IOM counts 22 million people in need, cites a 'persistent macroeconomic contraction' and says over 2.8 million undocumented Afghans returned from Iran and Pakistan in 2025, with returns since 2023 equal to about 11 per cent of the population. Pakistan's 1 November 2023 deadline for undocumented foreigners to leave, affecting an estimated 1.7 million Afghans, opened this era. On 20 October 2026 OCHA's Olga Cherevko said nearly 16 million Afghans face crisis-level hunger, rising to around 19 million in winter. Sources: IOM, VOA, UN News.
Shocks since 2025 compounded the strain. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake on 31 August 2025 in Kunar and Nangarhar killed more than 2,164 people, UN News reported, and days later Taliban security forces barred Afghan female UN staff from UN compounds in Kabul. A nationwide internet shutdown from 29 September 2025 was crippling banking and isolating women, UNAMA said. UNAMA attributes 512 civilian deaths to cross-border violence with Pakistan since October 2025, and in June 2026 the Security Council unanimously urged the Taliban to reverse their crackdown on women. Sources: UN News (1, 2), NY1, WTOP.
Key actors
Timeline
What to watch
Background, actors, timeline and watch list last reviewed against the linked sources. They are context for the monthly figures above, not part of the HAPI/HDX dataset.
Country readings
Afghanistan has a Country Instability Index reading of 60 (Elevated). Instability is a live 0-100 stress score; resilience is a structural 0-100 index ranked across countries. Both describe each country as a whole, not this crisis alone, and a country without a reading reflects index coverage, not a statement about risk.
| Country | Instability (CII) | CII movement | Resilience score | Resilience rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 60 (Elevated) | Unchanged | 34.2 / 100 | #162 of 169 |
Sources: Country Instability Index published pulse and the country resilience index snapshot used on each country page.
Coverage boundary
Afghanistan (AF). Events outside this list are not included in the live totals on this page.
Live data
How to read this tracker
Use these monthly country summaries as a bounded pulse, then inspect the dashboard for event-level context, map layers, and other independent signals. The figures are not forecasts and should not be interpreted as a complete casualty or incident ledger. SUZU Monitor's forecasts are graded separately, and that record is published on the forecast accuracy scorecard.
Questions about the Afghanistan crisis
What is happening in Afghanistan?
Shocks since 2025 compounded the strain. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake on 31 August 2025 in Kunar and Nangarhar killed more than 2,164 people, UN News reported, and days later Taliban security forces barred Afghan female UN staff from UN compounds in Kabul. A nationwide internet shutdown from 29 September 2025 was crippling banking and isolating women, UNAMA said. UNAMA attributes 512 civilian deaths to cross-border violence with Pakistan since October 2025, and in June 2026 the Security Council unanimously urged the Taliban to reverse their crackdown on women. Last reviewed October 24, 2026 against the linked sources.
What did the last published monthly figures show for the Afghanistan crisis?
In SUZU Monitor's weekly snapshot published November 2, 2026, HAPI/HDX humanitarian conflict summaries record 81 conflict events and 100 fatalities across Afghanistan for the reference period starting October 1, 2026. These are monthly country-level summaries, not a complete casualty or incident ledger; the figures above may refresh to a newer month.
Which countries does the Afghanistan crisis tracker cover?
Afghanistan. Events outside this country are not included in the totals on this page.
Download: tracker.json. Scope source: SUZU Monitor crisis registry. Maintained metrics: HAPI/HDX humanitarian conflict summaries from the UN OCHA Humanitarian API.
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