The Pakistani Taliban has confirmed the killing of its former spokesman who was once among the central leaders of the outlawed group.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the conditional release of frozen Afghan foreign currency reserves and urgent international funding as millions of people in the country face starvation in a worsening humanitarian catastrophe.
The Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan has galvanized and strengthened the Pakistani Taliban, an ideological ally that has intensified its insurgency against Islamabad in recent months.
Human Rights Watch says the Taliban's return to power following the complete withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from Afghanistan in August has aggravated the humanitarian and economic situation in the war-torn country amid an abrupt deterioration of human rights.
A female Afghan prosecutor overcame a crippling disease and discrimination to pursue an education and get her dream job. But since the Taliban takeover, she has been unemployed as the militants have barred many women from returning to work.
The United States will donate an additional $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, the White House announced on January 11, bringing the total U.S. aid for the war-wracked country to nearly $782 million since October.
The Taliban's religious police have erected banners in Kabul that order women to wear the Islamic hijab.
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan says a delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has met with resistance leaders Ahmad Massud and Ismail Khan in Iran.
At least seven people, including six children, have been killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, local officials said.
The Taliban have detained a prominent university professor after he publicly criticized the Taliban-led government in a live television debate, prompting a torrent of domestic and international criticism and worries about his safety.
Iran has deported an increasing number of Afghan refugees but they keep coming back.
The Taliban's feared Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has issued a spate of draconian decrees in recent weeks. Afghans say the directives, including ordering men to grow beards and women to travel with a male chaperone, infringe on basic human rights and freedoms.
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