Tens of thousands of girls were due to return to secondary school across Afghanistan Wednesday, more than seven months after the Taliban seized power and imposed harsh restrictions on the rights of women to be educated.

Thousands of Afghan girls return to school as Taliban end ban

Taliban backtracks its own announcement of reopening schools for girls in Afghanistan. The groups says that the school will remain closed until the plan was laid out in accordance with Islamic laws

Taliban backtracks on announcement of reopening schools for girls in Afghanistan

Months after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, sources report that the country's former finance minister Khalid Payenda is no driving an Uber in Washington DC to meet his needs.

Afghanistan’s former finance minister Khalid Payenda is now an Uber driver in Washington DC

After banning women from appearing in TV shows, the Taliban have now officially barred foreign shows and films from being broadcasted in Afghanistan, Sputnik news agency reported citing a person familiar with the situation.

Taliban ban foreign TV shows in Afghanistan, arrest 3 journalists for reporting about it

The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan on Thursday said it has formed a commission to help the people who left the country after the fall of Kabul in August 2021, to return to their homeland.

Taliban forms commission to help migrants return home

In the last 5 years, global arms trade shrank 5%. But Europe's weapons imports surged 19%. Is America laying the groundwork for an insurgency in Ukraine? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: US turning Ukraine into the next Afghanistan?

Afghan embassies around the world that have refused to recognise the new Taliban regime are struggling to stay afloat and facing increasing pressure from Kabul to accept loyalist replacements.

Afghan diplomats under pressure from Taliban regime

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, reports of poverty in the nation have been emerging. There have been reports of many Afghans selling possessions to buy food because of the Taliban's inability to pay wages to civil servants.

Amid extreme poverty, Kabul residents complain of high price of food materials

An Afghan group opposed to Taliban rule rejected on Sunday the police's accusation that its members had killed polio vaccinators on a campaign to eradicate the crippling virus.

Afghan group rejects murdering polio vaccinators

After an ACCI senior adviser to the Chamber of Commerce and Investment, Mohammad Dawood Musa was killed by a gunman at his home in the capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul, the organisation has expressed concern over what it says is an increasing trend in the killings of businessmen.

Killings, kidnappings of businessmen have increased in the country: Afghanistan's Chamber of Commerce

Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed on a document to allow the free movement of trucks between the two neighbouring nations. According to the Temporary Admission Document (TAD), Afghanistan's Consulates in Quetta and Peshawar would issue documents for Pakistani trucks, while Pakistan's Consulates in Kandahar and Khost will issue documents for Afghan trucks, reports TOLO News.

Afghanistan, Pakistan agree on free movement of cargo trucks

In a meeting held in Afghanistan, the female Foreign Ministers of at least seventeen countries across the world have expressed deep concerns regarding human rights violations and restrictions against women in Afghanistan, said a media report.

Female Foreign Ministers of 17 countries call on Taliban to lift restrictions on Afghan women

In growing signs of worry with Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has said "The problem of narcotics trafficking has intensified in last one year" in the "light of developments in Afghanistan" which is "evident in growing number of seizers in the past year".

Narcotics trafficking has intensified since Afghanistan 'developments': NSA Doval

Gujarat Titans have signed Afghanistan batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Rahmanullah will be serving as a replacement for the England batter Jason Roy, who had earlier pulled out of the tournament.

IPL 2022: Gujarat Titans rope in Afghanistan batter Rahmanullah Gurbaz as replacement for Jason Roy

Afghanistan has witnessed more than four decades of instability with the Taliban back in power after two decades what should be the framework of engagement with Afghanistan for other central and south Asian nations? The council for strategic affairs Indian Institute of Management Rohtak is hosting an international conference on this theme and Dr Subhash Chandra, member of Parliament, Chairperson of the Essel Group emphasized on the need to tackle radicalization and extremism.

Conference on Afghanistan: How can extremism be countered?

The recent devastating suicide bombing, targeted at a Shia Muslim mosque in Peshawar has marked the re-emergence of the dreaded Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) terror group in Pakistan.

After Afghanistan, Islamic State-Khorasan set foot in Pakistan

Taliban's interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, for the first time, was photographed openly at a passing-out parade for new Afghan police recruits. He is considered to be the Taliban's most secretive leader and his only picture on the US "most wanted" lists is a grainy semi-covered profile.

Taliban release its most secretive leader Sirajuddin Haqqani's photos for the first time

Experts deliberated on how Central and South Asian countries should engage with Afghanistan post the Taliban takeover during a conference jointly organised by the Tajik National University and the Council for Strategic Affairs, Indian Institute of Management.

Experts deliberate on how Central and South Asian countries should engage with Afghanistan

Afghan journalist Zahra Joya has been named as one of Time’s women of the year 2022. The journalist has been consistently reporting women’s lives in Afghanistan through her news agency, Rukhshana Media.

Afghan journalist features in Time’s women of the year for reporting women’s lives in Afghanistan

A plan to use more than $1 billion from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund to finance education, agriculture, health, and family programmes was approved by the World Bank's executive board on Tuesday, the bank announced.

Afghanistan to receive more than $1 billion in aid from the World Bank; funds to bypass Taliban

In response to mounting western sanctions Russian president Vladimir Putin has now raised threats of nuclear war. Russia strike has not just changed Ukraine, it will change the world as the offensives have upended post-cold war security and renewed foreign policy debates.

Afghanistan and now Ukraine...Is US about to lose its hegemony?

After leaving Afghanistan a year ago, Ajmal Rahmani believed he had found a haven of peace in Ukraine. This week, he and his family had to flee again -- this time to Poland to the sounds of Russian bombs.

'Another war': Afghan forced to flee again

A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan has reopened, officials said Sunday, days after fighting between security forces left at least three dead.

Pakistan-Afghan border reopens days after deadly clash

Taliban members and Pakistan officials will hold a meeting on Monday at Torkham over trade flows and people's movement across the Durand Line, according to local media.

Afghanistan, Pakistan to hold discussion over Durand line

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