All hostages have been freed unharmed from a synagogue in Texas after a tense standoff with a British man who news reports said demanded the release of a convicted Pakistani woman suspected of having ties to Al-Qaeda.
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.
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.
The banned Islamist group Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) says it is investigating the killing of its former spokesman, who was previously among the central leaders of the group.
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.
Pakistani rescuers were working to clear routes to a snow-bound resort town sheltering thousands of tourists on January 9, a day after 22 people died in vehicles trapped by heavy snow.
Authorities in northwest Pakistan say an officer from one of the country's paramilitary security forces has committed suicide after shooting dead at least other Pakistani soldiers near the border with Afghanistan on January 9.
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.
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