Senior officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan are in talks in Turkey in an effort aimed at ensuring peace along their shared border, state-run media in Pakistan said

The death toll from an earthquake in northern Afghanistan is climbing, and hundreds of families have lost their homes as the harsh winter arrives.

Each nation blamed the other for starting the exchange of gunfire near Spin Boldak, an Afghan border town. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Taliban’s hard-line government in Afghanistan is making major inroads in garnering legitimacy abroad. Despite its extremist policies, the international community has accepted that the Islamist group is here to stay,

Five months after Taliban supporters smashed up her restaurant, Afghan entrepreneur Laila Haidari opened a secret craft centre where women earn a small income stitching elaborate dresses and fashioning jewellery from melted down bullet casings.

It has been nearly eight years since U.S. forces overthrew the Taliban leaders of Afghanistan, but the war against the Taliban insurgency is bloodier than ever. The number of Afghan civilians killed in the wake of the war has increased 24 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same time period last year,

UN says the area devoted to opium poppies has dropped to a fraction of that cultivated before Taliban’s narcotics ban.

The Taliban on Friday threatened to resume hostilities against foreign troops in Afghanistan if they did not meet a May 1 deadline to withdraw.

Afghan players fled the country in 2021 after the Taliban banned women's sports. Their return to international competition sent a powerful message.