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Pak set to host meeting of Afghanistan neighbours to discuss developments

Pakistan will host a virtual meeting of foreign ministers of Afghanistan's neighbours on Wednesday to discuss the latest situation in the war-torn country.

Biden is at the cliff's edge: America must avoid another failed presidency

Joe Biden has become the emblem of the hour: headstrong but shaky, ambitious but inept.

Afghanistan: Elders leader tells UN council to protect women rights

Former Irish president Mary Robinson called on China and Russia to tell the Taliban that participation of women in Afghan society and the education of girls are non-negotiable and must be respected

'We are in some kind of jail': Afghan evacuees plead for action

The Americans trying to evacuate hundreds of Afghans and American citizens pleaded for action from the Biden administration to get the would-be evacuees aboard charter flights

Haibatullah Akhundzada: Shadowy Taliban leader whose son was suicide bomber

Hardline cleric retains ultimate authority over Taliban, took over in 2016 after predecessor killed in drone strike

Afghan envoy to UN Ghulam Isaczai defies Taliban regime, denounces it

Afghanistan's Permanent Representative Ghulam Isaczai has defied the Taliban government and denounced its overthrow of the elected government

Taliban name new Afghan government, interior minister on US sanctions list

United States says concerned by some Cabinet members

Blinken to appear before Senate Committee to testify Afghanistan withdrawal

US Secretary Antony Blinken will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 14 to testify country's withdrawal from Afghanistan.

China will try to work out arrangement with Taliban, says Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden said China has a 'real problem' with the Taliban so it is going to try to work out 'some arrangement' with the outfit

China, Pak and Russia trying to figure out what to do with Taliban: Biden

China, Pakistan, Russia and Iran are trying to figure out what do they do now with the Taliban, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday

Hassan Akhund to lead new Taliban govt, Mullah Baradar to be his deputy

Sirajuddin Haqqani -- the leader of the Haqqani Network, a US-designated terrorist organization -- will serve as acting interior minister

India, Russia to discuss Afghanistan crisis at NSA level meeting

India and Russia are set to discuss the Afghan crisis following the takeover of the war-torn nation by Taliban forces.

Qatar may struggle to deliver the revamped Taliban it hyped

Qatar's ties to the Taliban and other Islamist groups have long been a source of tension with its neighbors and concern for its Western allies

Afghanistan's takeover by Taliban will benefit Pakistan, harm India: Owaisi

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday said the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban is not good for India and it will benefit Pakistan

With dried up foreign aid, Afghanistan braces for humanitarian crisis

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, international aid, which evidently constitutes and caters to all basic facilitations of the country, has been suspended

Taliban fire shots to disperse crowd at anti-Pakistan protest in Kabul

Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets in Kabul and demonstrated in front of the Pakistan embassy demanding Islamabad to stop meddling in international affairs of Pakistan and helping the Taliban.The protest was led by women then a number of men joined them. They held banners and chanted anti-Pakistan slogans, Tolo News reported."Pakistan, Pakistan, Leave Afghanistan," a slogan on a signboard read. Pakistan and its notorious intelligence agency have been accused of supporting the Taliban in taking over Afghanistan.Experts believe that Pakistan has been a key player in removing the elected Afghan government from power and establishing the Taliban as a decisive power in Afghanistan.The protesters also chanted "Freedom, freedom", 'Death to ISI'. The Taliban fired shots into the air to disperse crowds at the protest.The protest comes a day after National Resistance Force leader Ahmad Massoud declared a national uprising against the Taliban and asked Afghans to resist the Taliban by ...

Afghans with valid visas and passports can take evacuation flights: Taliban

Speaking from Qatar, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said the Taliban have given assurances of safe passage for all seeking to leave Afghanistan with proper travel documents.

China denies report of Taliban's plan to hand over Bagram airbase to it

China on Tuesday termed as pure fake news a report that the Taliban plans to hand over Afghanistan's key Bagram airbase vacated by the US troops to it.

Mullah Hasan to head Taliban govt, Mullah Baradar to be his deputy: Report

Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, the chief of the Taliban's powerful decision-making body 'Rehbari Shura', has been named as Afghanistan's new head of state

'Death to Pakistan' chants as Afghans rally in support of Massoud

Videos on social media showed crowds chanting "death to Taliban, long live Afghanistan" as people marched in the dark streets on Monday night.