The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he is seeking urgent authorization to resume investigations into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan.
Taliban authorities have hung four bodies of alleged kidnappers in a public square in the western Afghan city of Herat.
China has emerged as a pragmatic backer of the Taliban’s nascent rule and pushing to get the group more political and economic support.
Afghanistan will not address the United Nations General Assembly on September 27 after the ambassador for the government ousted by the Taliban withdrew his name from the schedule.
Deposed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his Facebook account was hacked after a statement posted in his name called for international recognition of the Taliban-led government.
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has warned Afghanistan's economy is on the verge of collapse and the country faces a humanitarian catastrophe after the collapse of the government last month and subsequent takeover by Taliban militants.
Taliban officials have called on international airlines to resume flights to Afghanistan, saying that problems at Kabul airport had been resolved.
Many women's shelters in Afghanistan have shut down since the Taliban seized power in August. Activists say the closure of the shelters cuts off the only protection for victims of domestic abuse in the deeply conservative and patriarchal country.
Security sources in Tajikistan say they've received reports that Tajik Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan are searching for ways to cross into Tajikistan.
The Taliban hung several dead bodies from cranes in Herat city in western Afghanistan, local media and witnesses reported, in a gruesome display that signaled a return to some of the militant group's methods of the past.
At least one person was killed and seven others wounded in an explosion in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar that hit a Taliban convoy on September 25, local officials said.
Maulana Syed Arshad Madani, the head of an Islamic seminary where the Afghan Taliban ideology is rooted as part of a puritanical Sunni sect, tells RFE/RL he wants its government to be just, tolerant, and pragmatic.
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