A Taliban delegation headed by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is meeting representatives of the US, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union, and Norway in their first visit to Europe after coming taking over to Afghanistan.

On display in the Governor's compound of Ghazni province is a concrete slab is inscribed with the names and regiments of US troops who served in the province during America's longest war.

Private Turkish and Qatari companies have agreed to jointly operate five airports in Afghanistan, although they are still waiting to reach a final deal with the Taliban. Officials of the two countries have said little about the details of the memorandum of understanding.

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Saudi Arabia has said the collapse of Afghanistan would lead to chaos that has regional and international ramifications, while stressing the need to ensure that the country does not turn into a haven for terrorist and extremist groups. Speaking during the emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation hosted...

Saudi Arabia sent two aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to Afghanistan Thursday, state media reported, its first such initiative since the Taliban took control of the crisis-stricken country in August. The kingdom's state-run King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) sent more than 65 tons of aid, including 1,647 food...

Turkey and Qatar on Monday raised the possibility of jointly operating Afghanistan's Taliban-controlled airport, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off for two days of talks in Doha.

A flight chartered by Paris flew out 258 Afghans who were ‘particularly threatened because of their activities, especially journalists, or because of their links to France, including former locally-recruited civilian personnel for our armies,’ France has said. The same flight carried 11 French nationals and about 60 from the Netherlands,...

The Gulf country has played a significant role both in diplomacy and evacuations as the US ended its 20-year war in Afghanistan.

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public appearance since taking control of the group in 2016.  

An international commercial flight touched down in the Afghan capital on Monday, the first since the Taliban retook power last month.

The United States on Thursday praised the Taliban as businesslike and cooperative in facilitating the first evacuation of Americans from Afghanistan since the US military withdrawal.

Blinken, accompanied by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, is the most senior US official to visit the region since the Taliban's lightning takeover of Afghanistan on August 15.

The NRF said spokesman Fahim Dashty -- a well-known Afghan journalist -- and General Abdul Wudod Zara had been killed in the latest fighting. The Taliban completed a stunning two-week offensive across Afghanistan on August 15 by taking the capital, Kabul, without a fight. But remnants of the Afghan army...

Doha's long-standing hotline to the Taliban has helped Qatar burst onto the world stage with its efforts to assist Kabul reopen its airport.

The UAE foreign ministry confirmed to AFP that "this is the first (Emirati) aid flight since the recent events in Afghanistan".

The announcement of a cabinet may take place on Friday following afternoon prayers

The Taliban celebrated the US withdrawal, which was completed on Monday, as a major victory after taking control of Afghanistan last month. A long line of green Humvees idled in single file on a highway outside Kandahar, the spiritual birthplace of the militant movement, many with white-and-black Taliban flags attached...

After the complete withdrawal of the US forces, questions remain as to who will run the security of the airport and operate the logistics. The Taliban have insisted they want to keep the civilian airport open, but without guarantees over security, commercial airlines simply won't operate out of Kabul.

Taliban fighters swept into the airport and fired weapons into the sky in jubilation as the last of the American troops left on Monday night.

French president Emmanuel Macron vowed his country will maintain presence in Iraq no matter what Americans decide. After meeting Iraqi president Mustafa al-Khademi, Macron said Daesh remains a threat and the fight against these groups is a priority of Iraqi government.

The United States urged its citizens to leave the area, days after a deadly attack on crowds fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. A series of urgent terror warnings have rattled evacuation efforts overseen by US forces, who have been forced into closer security cooperation with the Taliban to prevent a...

Islamic State struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 U.S. troops, disrupting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee. Hours after the twin blasts, a third explosion was reported.

The UAE and Qatar have been instrumental staging posts for evacuation flights for Western countries' citizens as well as Afghan interpreters, journalists and others

The US State Department warning is unusually specific, mentions several gates that should be vacated immediately.

China could take lead to tap the untapped minerals including some that could power the world’s transition to renewable energies.

Bahrain has announced that it is “allowing flights to make use of Bahrain’s transit facilities” amid the evacuations of Afghanistan.

The move comes following a request from the United States to help out Afghan evacuees.

The IMF is expected to complete a $650 billion allocation of Special Drawing Rights, the fund’s unit of exchange based on dollars, euros, yen, sterling and yuan, on Monday, to its 190 member countries in proportion to their shareholdings in the fund.

The insurgent group has made no official statement on the structure of their government even as a key Taliban member held talks on Wednesday with former Afghan president Hamid Karzai. A member of The Taliban delegation that arrived from Doha said that the delegation will hold consultations with local and...

Ahmady explained that the Taliban would have access to only 0.1-0.2 percent of the country’s foreign reserves of $9 billion, especially given the sanctions the global community has placed on Afghanistan.

A concrete wall, topped with barbed wire and surrounded by trenches, is being erected along Turkey's border with Iran

Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday as the Taliban closed in on Kabul, before the insurgents walked into the Afghan capital unopposed

Taliban had set up Whatsapp hotline to receive complaints

Both already host large refugee populations — 3.6 million Syrians in Turkey and 3.5 million Afghans in Iran

The United Arab Emirates has cancelled all flights to Afghanistan, after Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul was overrun by thousands of residents desperate to flee the capital.

Taliban on Sunday took control of capital Kabul as Afghan forces, trained for years and equipped by the US and others at a cost of billions of dollars, melted away. President Ashraf Ghani wrote in a Facebook post that he had left the country to avoid clashes with the Taliban...

It is the clearest call to date from Qatar, which hosts the Taliban's politics office, for the militants to halt their lightning advance across Afghanistan

36-year-old Sadat commands 20,000 men and remains optimistic of a win against Taliban.

Jens Stoltenberg said the situation in the country is deeply challenging amid UN's warning that more civilians could die

Senior representatives of the Kabul government including head of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah flew in for two days of intensive talks