The United Nations which has warned of a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover is convening an aid conference in Geneva on Monday in an effort to raise more than $600 million for the Afghans.

UN hopes to raise over $600 million to avert humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan

Qatar’s foreign minister Abdulrahman held talks with the prime minister of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan during a visit to the war-torn country. It is being seen as the highest diplomatic level delegation to visit Kabul since the Taliban announced their interim Cabinet.

Qatar's foreign minister visits Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged the international community to engage with the Taliban to prevent Afghanistan's economy from collapsing completely.

Engage with Taliban to avert total collapse of Afghan economy: UN chief Antonio Guterres

Afghan women have returned to their job at the Kabul international airport weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. These 12 brave women are among 80 employed at the airport.

12 Afghan women return to work at Kabul international airport

With the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan, all trade and import of raw materials inside the country have stopped completely. As a result, the price of basic commodities has increased and there is a lack of jobs available.

Cash-strapped Kabul residents resort to selling household items

Afghan women have taken to the streets in groups large and small to protest against Taliban rule, the regime's new curbs on their rights, and Pakistan's influence in Afghanistan.

Afghan women protest against Taliban restrictions, fearing curbs on women's rights

The United Nations is convening an aid conference in Geneva in order to raise more than USD 600 million in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan. It has warned of a humanitarian crisis after the Taliban takeover.

UN seeks to raise $600 million to avoid Afghan humanitarian crisis

Qatar’s foreign minister Abdulrahman held talks with the prime minister of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in the highest-level foreign visit to Kabul since the group seized the capital last month.

Qatar FM Abdulrahman visits Kabul for talks with Taliban

The Taliban government's new higher education minister said that women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory.

Taliban says women can study in gender-segregated universities

The Taliban co-founder and now deputy prime minister of Afghanistan released an audio statement on Monday saying he was alive and well after news of his supposed demise went viral on social media.

Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar releases audio statement amid rumours of death

Former President Donald Trump slammed US President Joe Biden's pullout from Afghanistan, speculating that China and Russia are already reverse-engineering US military hardware left there.

‘I guarantee’: Trump claims China, Russia reverse-engineering US weapons left behind in Afghanistan

Hundreds of Afghan women have taken to social media to protest against the Taliban's burqa diktat. They posted photos of themselves in colourful attires.

Hundreds of Afghan women take to social media to protest against Taliban's burqa diktat

What represents a 'proper' dress? That too for a woman? Common sense dictates that it is she who will decide that and no other. But unfortunately, every culture in the world has its fair share of men dictating what's good/ proper/ admissible/ allowed for women.

Burqa not part of Afghan culture, defiant women in traditional wear tell Taliban

Taliban raised flag over Afghan presidential palace as United States marks 20 years of 9/11 attacks. Watch this report to know more.

Afghanistan: Taliban flag raised in Kabul on 9/11 anniversary

48 hours before the 31st of August deadlines the Americans conducted yet another strike in Kabul. Now this claimed the Americans was in retaliation to the 26th of august suicide bombing at the Kabul International Airport that resulted in the killing of over 200 of Afghan nationals and about 13 American service personnel.

US strike wipe out Kabul family, brother says

Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani held talks with Taliban Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund in Kabul, according to reports.

Qatar foreign minister visits Kabul, meets Taliban PM: Reports

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, who remained underground for over a decade and only showed his face when the militia group seized control of Kabul on August 15, said he lived in the Afghan capital right under the nose of his adversaries who considered him a “ghost-like” figure during the conflict.

US thought I was a ghost, roamed freely across Afghanistan, boasts Taliban spokesman Mujahid

Taliban fighters have taken over the glitzy Kabul mansion of one of their fiercest enemies -- the warlord and fugitive ex-vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum. Now in the hands of rank and file Taliban fighters, the opulent villa has given the austere Islamists a peek into the lives of Afghanistan's former rulers, and they say the luxury is the proceeds of years of endemic corruption.

Warlord chic: Taliban make themselves at home in Dostum's mansion

As international donors gather in Geneva on Monday to discuss humanitarian relief for Afghanistan under Taliban rule, neighbours China and Pakistan have already reached out with aid and discussions of future assistance.

As West ponders aid for Afghanistan, China and Pakistan quick to provide relief

As the world mourned the immense loss on the US went through 20 years ago on 9/11, former US President Donald Trump concentrated on slamming Joe Biden. Unhappy with President Biden’s decision to withdraw US army from Afghanistan, Trump blamed Biden for the ‘horrible thing’ and called it Biden’s 'incompetence'.

As world mourns 9/11, Trump slams Biden for Afghan withdrawal

India's border forces and armed police units deployed in the counter-terrorism grid have been directed by the central security establishment to prepare and administer a new training module on the Taliban and its modus operandi to the troops in view of the "emerging" scenario following the Islamic militia taking over Afghanistan.

Indian security forces to have training module on Taliban

For the first time since the Taliban seized power, Afghan police have returned to man checkpoints alongside the hardline group’s security personnel at Kabul airport, officials said on Sunday.

In a first, Afghan police return to man posts with Taliban at Kabul airport

Before heading to Qatar for talks on Sunday for discussing future evacuations from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday that France will not have any relationship with newly-formed Taliban government as they are lying.

France to not have any relationship with Taliban government: Foreign Minister Le Drian

On September 11, multiple media reports had stated that Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is ready to start commercial flights to Kabul. However, PIA has clarified against it now.

No plans of resuming commercial flights between Kabul and Pakistan yet: PIA backtracks

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