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Pakistan has accused the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan of “indiscriminate firing” and constructing “unlawful structures” at a key border crossing that has been closed for nearly a week. In a statement on Monday, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said “unprovoked and indiscriminate firing” by the Afghan Taliban forces led to the …

Everyone came together in the days after the attacks, but in hindsight 9/11 looks like the moment when everything started to fall apart. Was 9/11 the beginning of the end for America? In the 22 years since the attacks, I’ve begun to worry that the answer to that question is …

The link between the Afghan Taliban and proscribed militant outfits Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) remains “strong and symbiotic”, a report published by the United Nations (UN) said. The fourteenth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council’s 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee — released …

Two Iranian border guards have been killed and two civilians wounded during clashes with armed members of the Taliban in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan. An Iranian police official said on Saturday the Taliban started shooting at a border post in violation of international law and the principles …

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the United Nations will stay in Afghanistan to deliver aid to millions of desperate Afghan citizens but warned that funding is drying up. Guterres held a second day of talks with world powers in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, saying the UN will deliver aid …

Afghan women protested in Kabul on Saturday, defying a crackdown on dissent to urge foreign nations not to formally recognize the Taliban government ahead of a UN summit next week. Since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, protesters voicing opposition against creeping curbs on women’s rights have been …

The decision to ban Afghan women from working for the United Nations was an “internal social matter”, the country’s Taliban authorities said Friday, a day after the UN Security Council demanded they overturn the ruling. The Security Council resolution passed unanimously by all 15 Council members on Thursday said a …

The UN Security Council is set to vote on Thursday to condemn a ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and call upon the Taliban administration to “swiftly reverse” its crackdown on the rights of women and girls. The resolution to be voted on – drafted …

The United Nations made a renewed appeal for international aid for Afghanistan, warning that a cut in funding in response to the Taliban government banning women from education and jobs would perpetuate extreme poverty that lasts for decades. Afghanistan remains cut off from the global financial system since the militant …

More than a dozen people have been killed and scores more injured after a strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled the Hindu Kush mountain range stretching along northern parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The earthquake struck late on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring 44 in northwest Pakistan. At …

Pakistani border guards and Afghan Taliban forces traded cross-border fire on Monday morning, officials said, a day after Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers closed the Torkham border crossing amid increasing tensions between the two neighbors. Six Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier were killed on Sunday in the shelling and gunfire, according …

Six people have been charged with human trafficking in Bulgaria following the incident Prosecutors in Bulgaria have charged six people with human trafficking following the discovery near the capital, Sofia, on Friday of an abandoned truck containing the remains of 18 Afghan migrants who died of suffocation. “The victims died …

The Taliban administration will move ahead with plans to turn former foreign military bases into special economic zones for businesses, the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs said in a statement on Sunday. The acting commerce minister had told Reuters in December that his ministry was working on the …

The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a police post in northern Pakistan that killed three police officers. Attackers threw grenades at a police outpost near the Afghan border in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and entered the premises where a suicide bomber detonated explosives, …

At least 70 people have died in a wave of freezing temperatures sweeping Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, as extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in the poverty-stricken nation. Since January 10, the mercury has plunged in Kabul and several other provinces, with the central region of Ghor recording the lowest …

Multiple casualties have been reported, with the blast allegedly targeting the Taliban’s foreign ministry A blast in the Afghan capital of Kabul killed at least 20 people on Wednesday, a Taliban official said. The explosion apparently took place outside the Taliban government’s foreign ministry building, with photos from the scene …

Local residents say a loud explosion was heard before 8 am local time on New Year’s Day An explosion was heard outside the military airport in Kabul which is feared to have caused “multiple casualties”, Afghanistan’s Taliban government has said. “Today morning an explosion took place outside Kabul military airport, …

The Taliban authorities on Tuesday ordered an indefinite ban on university education for Afghan girls, the ministry of higher education said in a letter issued to all government and private universities. “You all are informed to implement the mentioned order of suspending the education of females until further notice,” said …

Cross-border shelling and gunfire between Afghanistan and Pakistan killed eight Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier on Sunday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, with each side accusing the other of starting the fighting. The Pakistan army said Afghan border forces had opened “unprovoked and indiscriminate fire of …

Security forces have reportedly cordoned off the area and confronted the assailants, a local security commander has said A hotel in northwestern Kabul came under attack on Monday, a security official has confirmed. According to witnesses and footage, loud explosions and gunfire were heard at the scene. The fighting reportedly …