The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a US-proposed resolution to help humanitarian aid reach desperate Afghans, while seeking to keep funds out of Taliban hands. The resolution—a first step by the UN after months of wrangling over how…
Taliban leaders have called for the release of billions of dollars in US aid to Afghanistan after two days of talks in Doha. They also called for the leaders of the group not to be blacklisted and for the sanctions…
Twenty-two countries have called on the ruling Taliban to stop killing former members of Afghanistan’s security forces. This information was given in the report of BBC online on Sunday. The United States and its allies have made the call in…
The Taliban’s supreme leader has ordered fighters not to punish members of Afghanistan’s former regime for past “crimes”, days after a video of an army commander being beaten went viral on social media. The order, tweeted Thursday by group spokesman…
Teacher Hadia Ahmadi (pseudonym) lost her job after the Taliban invaded the Afghan capital last August. He is now 43 years old. In the freezing cold, Hadia Ahmadi sits on the side of the road in Kabul and now polishes…
The new ambassadors of Afghanistan and Myanmar are currently unable to represent the United Nations. The UN Credentials Committee met on Wednesday to decide who would represent the two countries. Such a decision has been taken from that meeting. Myanmar’s…
The Pakistani Taliban has announced the withdrawal of the ceasefire, accusing the Pakistani government of violating the terms. The leaders of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced a ceasefire with the government, mediated by Taliban members in Afghanistan, AFP reported. In…
For the first time since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia has sent relief aid to the war-torn country. The aid was sent by two planes on Thursday from the Saudi state-run King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief…
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Sunday that women seeking to travel anything other than short distances should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative. The guidance, issued by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue…
The prime minister of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, has said his government will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. Hasan Akhund made this promise on Saturday. The news agency AFP reported this…