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The army chief of staff Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat (L), acting defence minister of Afghanistan Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid (C) and Taliban defence ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khawarizmi speak during a press conference in Kabul on 28 August 2022.

Pakistan providing airspace for US drones: Afghan minister

Afghan defence minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid accused Pakistan on Sunday of providing airspace for US drones to enter his country, characterising the incursions as a continuation of Washington's ...

Taliban religious scholars attend a public meeting on economic welfare at a private salon in Kandahar on 18 August, 2022.

UN to end travel ban exemptions for Taliban officials

The latest proposal would allow just six Taliban officials to travel for diplomatic reasons

Afghans pray at a grave of victims, after burial ceremony in a cemetery in the outskirts of Kabul on 18 August, 2022

Death toll from Kabul mosque blast rises to 21

Police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said that another 33 people had been injured in the blast, which witnesses told Reuters shattered the windows of buildings near the mosque in a northern Kabul ...

A Taliban fighter stands guard on a bridge in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 6 August, 2022

At least 20 dead, 40 injured in mosque explosion in Kabul

The blast reportedly took place in a mosque in the Khair Khana area during evening prayers. “As a result of an explosion in a mosque north of Kabul, 20 people were killed and another 40 were ...

Taliban fighters fire in air to disperse Afghan women protesters in Kabul on 13 August, 2022

Taliban violently disperse rare women's protest in Kabul

Taliban fighters beat women protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of the hardline ...

A general view of the city of Kabul, Afghanistan on 5 August, 2022

Misery and disease conquer Afghanistan a year into Taliban rule

Poverty in the country -- felt most keenly in Afghanistan’s south -- has been driven to desperate new levels, exacerbated by drought and inflation since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

This photo taken on 18 July 2022, shows a man preparing breakfast in a stall in Kandahar.

Taliban torn over reforms one year after seizing power

One year on from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan, some cracks are opening within their ranks over the crucial question of just how much reform their leaders can tolerate

Kerishma Rasheedi, 16, and her classmates attend a lesson at a private school in Kabul, Afghanistan, 3 August 2022

A year after Taliban's return, some women fight for lost freedoms

Monesa Mubarez was one of many women, mostly in big cities, who won freedoms that a former generation could not have dreamed of under the Taliban's previous rule in the late 1990s.

Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint near the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, 6 August, 2022

A year on, Afghans hide out fearing death by data

Tens of thousands of Afghans - including former government officials, judges, police and human rights activists remain in hiding one year on, fearful of being tracked with digital ID and data systems ...

This handout image provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on 1 August, 2022 shows the poster of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri after he was killed in a US counterterrorism operation

Haqqanis were aware of Zawahiri's presence in Kabul: US

Following the killing of Ayman Al Zawahri on 31 July in Afghanistan, the Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House, John Kirby stated that the ...

A member of Taliban stands guard along a road in Kabul on 30 September 2021.

UN records hundreds of killings and rights violations by Taliban

The Taliban have carried out hundreds of human rights violations in Afghanistan since seizing power last year, the United Nations said Wednesday, including extrajudicial killings and torture

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a press conference in Kabul on 30 June, 2022

Afghan clerics pledge loyalty to Taliban

Thousands of Afghan clerics pledged loyalty to the Taliban Saturday, but ended a three-day meeting without recommendations on how the hardline Islamist group should govern the crisis-hit country

A house destroyed in powerful earthquake in the province of Paktika, Afghanistan

Death toll in Afghanistan earthquake rises to 920

A powerful earthquake struck a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight killing at least 920 people and injuring hundreds more, officials said Wednesday, with the toll expected to rise as ...

A Taliban fighter stands guard in front of a Sikh temple following an attack by gunmen in Kabul on 18 June, 2022

Islamic State claims Kabul Sikh temple attack

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan that killed one community member and a Taliban fighter, saying it was retaliation for insults against the ...

Burqa-clad women stand near a banner placed by Taliban authorities asking women to wear a hijab, in Kandahar on 16 June, 2022

Women not wearing hijab ‘trying to look like animals’: Taliban posters

In May, the country’s supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada approved a decree saying women should generally stay at home.

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