Two regional security blocs led by Russia and China are preparing to hold separate summits in the Tajik capital this week to discuss the situation in Afghanistan in which the Taliban took power a month ago.
Taliban co-founder and acting Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar appeared in a video to deny speculation he was hurt or killed in a clash with a rival faction of the fundamentalist group.
Iran has resumed regular commercial flights to neighboring Afghanistan following a monthlong hiatus.
A group of top Afghan girls soccer players, their coaches, and family members have fled across the border into neighboring Pakistan as questions linger over the status of female athletes under the newly installed Taliban-led government.
The European Union says it will step up its jointly financed humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan by a further 100 million euros ($120 million) as part of a new support package to be unveiled in the coming weeks.
Seven soldiers have been killed in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s North Waziristan tribal region, military sources told RFE/RL.
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says $36 million is urgently needed in war-torn and drought-stricken Afghanistan’s rural areas for the coming months to ensure the planting of winter wheat, feed for livestock, and cash assistance for vulnerable families.
The Taliban is denying reports that the former head of their political office in Doha has been killed in a shoot-out with another senior Taliban figure during an argument over how to divide power in a Taliban-led caretaker government.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he's hopeful the Taliban-led government will eventually become inclusive and draw its strength from domestic legitimacy, which he says is the key to earning international recognition.
Dozens of Afghan women residing in Tajikistan have rallied at Afghanistan's embassy in Dushanbe to protest against the erosion of human rights under the newly installed Taliban-led government and what they said was Pakistan's support of the militants.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry summoned the U.S. Ambassador to the Central Asian nation, John Pommersheim, to make a verbal protest over President Joe Biden's recent comments about the Central Asian nation in relation with the U.S. troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Afghan women are using a social media campaign to fight back against the Taliban-led government's strict new dress code for female students.
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