Afghanistan
US says it will resume talks with Taliban next week
A first session between the two sides was held 9-10 October in the Qatari capital Doha, where US diplomats overseeing relations with Afghanistan transferred...
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Taliban begin paying salaries to govt employees
Most government employees have yet to return to work and many had not been paid for months even before the Taliban captured power, especially rural workers.
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Kim Kardashian and Leeds aid Afghan female footballers' flight to Britain
The 35 female footballers and their families, a total of 130 people, arrived at Stansted Airport, east of London, in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to the ROKiT Foundation.
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Taliban launch operation against IS in southern Afghanistan
The operation against Islamic State-Khorasan -- the local chapter of the jihadist group -- started around midnight in at least four districts of Kandahar province and continued through Monday morning, Taliban provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi told AFP.
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Heaping upon misery, Afghanistan now faces raging measles outbreak
The WHO says the outbreak is particularly concerning since Afghanistan faces surging food insecurity and malnutrition.
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Afghanistan 'at brink of economic collapse', warns Pakistan
Shah Mehmood Qureshi spoke at the opening of the so-called "troika plus" meeting, which included Thomas West, the new US special envoy for Afghanistan. The delegates also met later Thursday with Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.
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Australia postpones its first-ever Afghanistan cricket Test
After the Taliban ousted Afghanistan's elected government in August, senior leaders said Afghan women would no longer play cricket, or any other sport. Senior Australian cricketers had indicated they would like to see the Test cancelled if the de facto ban on women's cricket remained in place.
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Senior Taliban commander among dead in hospital attack
A Taliban military commander in Kabul was among the fighters killed when his men responded to an Islamic State attack on a hospital, officials said on Wednesday.
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Taliban bans Afghans from using foreign currencies
Since the Islamist group seized power in mid-August, the national currency the Afghani has depreciated, and the country's reserves are frozen abroad.
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Here's how an influencer and army vets raised $7mn to rescue Afghans
With just a few clicks on his phone from his home in New Jersey, Instagram influencer Tommy Marcus started what would become an extraordinary operation to evacuate hundreds of terrified Afghans.
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Anger over men-only foreign delegations to meet Taliban
Heather Barr from Human Rights Watch created a list, under the hashtag "sausageparty", of pictures posted by the Taliban of their meetings with delegations in Kabul.
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In a letter to the Taliban, Malala calls for reversal of girls' school ban
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai called on the leaders of Muslim nations to make it clear to the Taliban that 'religion does not justify preventing girls from going to school'.
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Afghan girls still barred from school with no end in sight
Afghanistan's new Islamist rulers ordered male teachers and boys aged 13 and over back to secondary schools but there has been no mention of women teachers or girl pupils.
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Putin: Islamic State fighters massing in Afghanistan
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said IS leaders in Afghanistan were seeking to project the group's influence across former Soviet states in Central Asia -- which Moscow sees as its backyard -- to stir up religious and ethnic discord.
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G20 leaders agree to step up Afghan humanitarian effort
The European Union opened the talks by pledging one billion euros ($1.2-billion), including money for urgent humanitarian needs and Afghanistan's neighbours who were taking in Afghans fleeing the Taliban.
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Under-pressure Taliban meet EU-US delegation in push for support
Afghanistan's new rulers are seeking recognition, as well as assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster, after they returned to power in August following the withdrawal of US troops after 20 years of war.
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Afghan army collapse took US by 'surprise': Pentagon chief
The Pentagon chief said the United States 'did not fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership in their senior ranks'.
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Top NGO leader presses Taliban on letting women work
Jan Egeland, director-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), said the issue of women's employment -- and education for girls -- had been central to meetings he had held with Taliban officials since his arrival at the weekend.
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Unusual UN meet to close without Taliban, Myanmar speeches
The UN representative of Afghanistan's former regime was expected to defy the Taliban with an address on Monday after the group requested its new foreign minister be allowed to speak instead.
