Ahmad Massoud, the son of Afghanistan’s late National Hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, said he will never hand over Panjshir province to anyone, even as the Taliban increases its forces near the mountainous valley in northern Afghanistan...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held an emergency meeting over the situation in Afghanistan on Sunday, calling on the international community to provide humanitarian aid...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on US President Joe Biden to draw up a special plan to remove Afghan journalists at risk...

The Taliban aim to unveil a new governing framework for Afghanistan in the next few weeks, a spokesman said on Saturday...

US President Joe Biden on Friday promised Americans in Afghanistan that we will get you home, but warned the evacuation mission would be risky and dangerous, Reuters reported...

Afghanistan is seeking international assistance in terms of rebuilding the country after years of occupation by foreign troops, Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban Political Office in Qatar, said Thursday...

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell addresses a joint press after a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels on July 12, 2021...

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Thursday that the Taliban wants friendly relations with all countries around the world, especially the United States, and that they have not been hostile towards any country...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that his country still aims to maintain security at the Kabul airport, after Taliban took control of Afghanistan’s capital...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris discussed ways to accelerate evacuations of Americans and refugees from Afghanistan with his national security team on Wednesday, a White House official told Reuters...

If the Biden-administration thinks that by allowing the democratic governments (that too the government which is sustained by US money) to collapse by armed uprising of terrorists (who don’t want to participate in elections because they don’t have support of the majority of the people), it can win the ongoing cold war II between ‘liberal Western democracy’ against ‘authoritarian Chinese democracy’ then it is living in its make believe world...

Kabul residents on Monday voiced their anger at former president Ashraf Ghani, who slipped out of the country unnoticed on Sunday, and accused him of national treason...

The Taliban said that while there was little traffic on the roads and many shops were closed Monday, following the take over on Sunday, this was just a temporary situation and that things will return to normal in the next few days...

The Taliban’s real test begins now as they look to meet the people’s expectations and serve them by resolving problems, a senior official from the group said as the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Reuters reported...

All commercial flights were suspended at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, a statement by the airport authority said on Monday...

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Shortly after his pre-recorded message to the nation, President Ashraf Ghani held a consultative meeting with political and jihadi leaders who supported his notion for preventing further instability in the country, the Presidential Palace said...

President Ashraf Ghani addressed the nation on Saturday and said his top priority is to remobilize the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)...

In the article (https://www.thefridaytimes.com/message-and-medium/ ) the former Chief Minister of Punjab and a prominent journalist of Pakistan Najam Sethi has said that mainly the military establishment of Pakistan (Miltablishment) is responsible for the current problems of Pakistan which has surfaced in view of likely power grabbing by Taliban where the imminent defeat of the West (led by the USA) has triggered a blame game against Pakistan which may even lead to sanctions etc against Pakistan and which will put the people of Pakistan in extreme difficulties due to mistakes (perfidy as per the West) of Pak Miltablishment...

The Afghan capital, Kabul, is not in an imminent threat environment despite sudden territorial gains by the Taliban across the country, a U...

American troops have flown into Kabul to help evacuate embassy personnel and other civilians in the Afghan capital, a U...

By Arlene J. Schar and Dr. David Leffler Afghanistan’s leaders face a challenging task: uniting a fractured and crippled country in the midst of a raging pandemic with economic devastation and societal discord fueling conflict and terrorism...

Taliban leaders have said they will not negotiate with the Afghan government as long as Ashraf Ghani remains president, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday (August 11), Reuters reported...

Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum said Wednesday that the Taliban are now trapped in the north and will not be able to flee that part of the country and that security forces will crackdown on the militants...

The Afghan government has brought changes in key army positions amid intensified clashes between the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) and the Taliban militants across the country...

Afghans inspect damaged shops after fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces in Kunduz city, northern Afghanistan, on August *, 2020...

The multilateral meeting on the peace process in Afghanistan convened Tuesday in Qatar’s capital of Doha, with participating parties calling for a political settlement to achieve enduring peace in the county, Reuters reported...

Six EU member states have sent a letter to the bloc’s executive warning against halting deportations of unsuccessful Afghan asylum seekers despite major advances of Taliban militants in their country, Reuters reported...

Taliban insurgents tightened their grip on captured Afghan territory on Tuesday, now controlling 65% of the country, as U...

A multilateral meeting on the peace process in Afghanistan convened in Qatar’s capital of Doha on Tuesday with participating parties calling for a political settlement to achieve enduring peace in the county...

U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad left for Doha over the weekend where he will help formulate a joint international response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the State Department reported...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated Tuesday that hundreds of thousands of people are at risk as fighting intensifies in and around the cities of Kunduz, Lashkargah, Kandahar and other cities in Afghanistan...

Pakistan on Monday said the international community needed to look into the meltdown of Afghan security forces in the face of Taliban offensives across Afghanistan, instead of blaming Pakistan for the fast-deteriorating situation, Reuters reported...

At least 27 children have been killed and 136 injured across three provinces of Afghanistan over the past three days amid escalating violence, the U...

Some members of Afghanistan’s Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) said on Sunday that more than 60% of customs revenue is now being collected by the Taliban after they captured border crossings...

Fighting is underway between security forces and Taliban in the northern provinces of Balkh and Takhar since Sunday night, officials from the province said...

The US Embassy in Kabul on Saturday called on all Americans in Afghanistan to leave the country immediately - on commercial flights...

Recent actions by the Taliban will not help them gain international legitimacy, the White House said on Friday, after the group killed the Afghan government’s senior media officer in Kabul...

Taliban fighters attacked a security checkpoint in Fatehabad area of Sorkh Rud district of Nangarhar province on Thursday morning and have blocked access for motorists along a road that leads to Kabul...

The former police chief of Kandahar and a member of the High Council of the National Reconciliation (HCNR), Tadin Khan, on Wednesday stated that the Taliban does not believe in human rights, saying the group has killed potentially up to 900 people in Kandahar province in the past month and a half...

Millions across Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday night chanted the slogan Allahu Akbar (God is the greatest), in a show of support for Afghan forces fighting the Taliban...

Life has returned to normal in the Nijrab district of Kapisa province after 13 days of fierce fighting between the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANSDF) and Taliban militants, officials confirmed...

An Afghan security personnel inspects the site a day after a car bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 4, 2021...

At least eight people were killed and more than 20 wounded on Tuesday night in a car bomb explosion outside the house of acting defense minister Bismillah Mohammadi, the Ministry of Interior confirmed Wednesday...

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday night telephonically and expressed his concern over the sharp escalation of violence by the Taliban, the Presidential Palace (ARG) said in a statement...

Turkey on Tuesday criticised a U.S. program to offer potential resettlement to Afghans who may be targets of Taliban violence due to their U...

The Taliban and the Kabul government are far apart in U...

Clashes between government forces and the Taliban intensified in the city of Lashkargah in southern Helmand province, leaving some streets of the city empty of residents and adding to concerns about rising threats to major capitals...

The Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) and the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament) on Monday jointly declared their support for the country’s Republic system, the Constitution, freedom of expression, women’s rights and government’s security forces...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called on MPs on Monday to use their contacts and mobilize the people to stand against the Taliban...