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World Published 23 Dec, 2021 10:18am

UNSC adopts resolution to ease Afghan aid

The resolution was welcomed by the Taliban as a 'good step'

World Published 22 Dec, 2021 01:46pm

Visitors return to Afghan national museum Taliban once ransacked

The treasures range from painted Stone Age pottery to ancient coins, religious items

World Updated 21 Dec, 2021 04:45pm

Taliban allow protest calling for Afghan assets to be released

Around 200 Afghans marched in Kabul Tuesday to demand the release of billions of dollars of...

World Published 19 Dec, 2021 04:15pm

Hundreds queue for passports in Kabul in bid to leave Afghanistan

Tense Taliban personnel periodically charged crowds that formed at the front of the queue and at a nearby roadblock

World Published 18 Dec, 2021 04:19pm

Taliban govt resumes issuing Afghan passports in Kabul

Interior Ministry Passport Department head Alam Gul Haqqani says initially travel documents will be given to those who had already applied before the office suspended work

World Published 17 Dec, 2021 03:21pm

Taliban prepare new Afghan budget without foreign aid

Finance ministry spokesman says the government trying to finance it from its domestic revenues

World Published 17 Dec, 2021 02:26pm

Releasing $9.5b in frozen assets can't help the Afghan people as long as the Taliban remain in power

Afghanistan is in a major humanitarian crisis: the health sector is failing, the economy is collapsing, and amid the...

World Published 17 Dec, 2021 10:45am

Drone strike on TTP leader fails to explode, Taliban sources say

Drone fired a missile at a hujra on the compound of Maulvi Faqir Mohammad

World Updated 14 Dec, 2021 08:04pm

Taliban behind at least 72 extrajudicial killings: UN

United Nations deputy rights chief Nada Al-Nashif said she was deeply alarmed by continuing...

World Updated 13 Dec, 2021 01:17pm

Kabul passport office head urges patience as anxious crowds keep gathering

KABUL:The head of the Kabul Passport Office has asked for patience from thousands of Afghans waiting for documents...

Pakistan Published 11 Dec, 2021 01:55pm

Afghan Taliban and TTP do not share same objectives: Zabihullah Mujahid

They are not, as an organization, part of IEA and we don’t share the same objectives, says Zabiullah Mujahid

Pakistan Published 10 Dec, 2021 12:22pm

TTP declines to extend ceasefire

Banned outfit says govt failed to release prisoners, honour ceasefire as agreed

Pakistan Published 09 Dec, 2021 05:37pm

Govt to release TTP footsoldiers as negotiations continue: report

TTP expected to agree to extension of month-long ceasefire that expires today

World Published 05 Dec, 2021 03:17pm

US, West condemn reported 'summary killings' of ex-security forces

Want Taliban, Afghanistan's new rulers, to ensure announced amnesty is enforced

World Published 04 Dec, 2021 12:39pm

France, Europeans 'working to open joint mission' in Afghanistan

Macron says this is different demarche than a political recognition or political dialogue with the group

World Published 03 Dec, 2021 04:10pm

Taliban release decree saying women must consent to marriage

The Taliban say they have changed and high schools for girls in some provinces have been allowed to open

World Updated 02 Dec, 2021 05:03pm

What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

By Arshad Mohammed and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON: The World Bank's board has ...

World Published 01 Dec, 2021 07:31pm

Taliban urges US to release frozen funds in Doha talks

The Afghans also called for an end to blacklists and sanctions in meetings led by Taliban Foreign Minister...

World Published 01 Dec, 2021 12:10pm

Afghan babies succumb to hunger as winter descends

The Doctors Without Borders in Herat seeks to help the community cope with a public health system on its last legs

World Published 29 Nov, 2021 07:17pm

Taliban asks EU for help with Afghanistan's airports

The Taliban asked for help in keeping Afghanistan's airports running in weekend talks with EU officials th...

World Published 26 Nov, 2021 10:27am

Hazara elders pledge support for Taliban rulers

Senior leaders insist that “dark period” of previous Western-backed govts ended with return of Islamists

World Published 24 Nov, 2021 01:27pm

UAE holds talks with Taliban to run Kabul airport - foreign diplomats

By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI:The United Arab Emirates has held talks with the Taliban to run Kabul airport, going up...

World Published 24 Nov, 2021 11:19am

Taliban to purge 'people of bad character' from ranks

By Jibran Ahmad KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan:The Taliban have formed a commission to purge "people of bad character"...

Life & Style Updated 24 Nov, 2021 11:19am

LGBT+ Afghans fear being forgotten 100 days since Taliban takeover

By Hugo Greenhalgh As he struggled to wrench his hair from the grasp of a heavily armed Taliban fighter, Mohammad -...

World Published 22 Nov, 2021 10:22am

Taliban to Afghan networks: stop airing shows with women actors

Taliban have called on women television journalists to wear Islamic hijabs while presenting their reports

World Published 21 Nov, 2021 02:44pm

'Dark future': The distress of Afghan women who can no longer work

Like so many other Afghan women, 21-year-old journalist Madina cannot work and her family has lost her income

World Published 20 Nov, 2021 04:52pm

Taliban to start paying overdue salaries of Afghan govt workers

Thousands of state employees are owed at least three months of salary

World Published 19 Nov, 2021 11:21pm

US tells Taliban to 'earn' the release of frozen funds

In an open letter the Taliban called on the US Congress to release Afghan assets frozen after their...

World Updated 18 Nov, 2021 03:10pm

U.N. envoy says Islamic State now appears present in all Afghan provinces

UN envoy to Afghanistan delivers bleak assessment of situation following Taliban takeover