Kabul

About two weeks after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021, the then head of Pakistan's spy agency arrived at one of Kabul's plushest hotels, smiling, sipping tea and appearing at ease with the militants' return to power.

The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the "mastermind" behind a suicide attack at Kabul's international airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of civilians.

An Afghan toddler who was bundled onto an evacuation flight from Kabul in 2021 after her parents died in a bomb blast has been reunited with relatives at a Qatar orphanage.

A suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group near Afghanistan's foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said.

India on Thursday asserted that there has been no change in its position on not recognising the Taliban regime in Kabul, after reports of an Afghan foreign policy body asking officials to attend an online programme under an Indian initiative.

Taliban forces killed a top ISIS terrorist who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan's capital, a government official said.

Taliban detained a social media influencer and former member of security forces in the previous government in Kabul, Afghanistan's vernacular media Reporterly reported.

A senior Pakistani police official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Monday's blast took place told AFP the Kabul delegation would hold "talks with the top brass".

Ashraf Ghani, the former Afghanistan President who fled the country when the Taliban grabbed power in Kabul, was "a total fraud" solely focused on his own desire to stay in power and a big hurdle in any peace talks,

Mannequins at women's dress shops in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is currently under Taliban rule, were seen with their heads wrapped using plastic bags and faces covered with aluminium foil.

Gunmen shot dead an Afghan former lawmaker and one of her bodyguards in the capital Kabul in a night-time attack at her home, police said on Sunday.

A woman asks her the price of the pen and the little seller says 20 cents. The woman asks her something that brings smile to the girl's face. She asks if she can buy all the pens.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in Kabul described Australia's decision as "pathetic"

Afghanistan on Wednesday was rocked by the suicide attack outside the Taliban Foreign Ministry in Kabul, resulting in the deaths of five persons and injuring others, according to officials reported Dawn.

The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing outside the foreign ministry in Kabul that officials and witnesses said killed at least five people and wounded 40 others.

About two weeks after the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021, the then head of Pakistan's spy agency arrived at one of Kabul's plushest hotels, smiling, sipping tea and appearing at ease with the militants' return to power.

The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the "mastermind" behind a suicide attack at Kabul's international airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of civilians.

An Afghan toddler who was bundled onto an evacuation flight from Kabul in 2021 after her parents died in a bomb blast has been reunited with relatives at a Qatar orphanage.

A suicide attack claimed by the Islamic State group near Afghanistan's foreign ministry killed six civilians and wounded several others, the interior ministry said.

India on Thursday asserted that there has been no change in its position on not recognising the Taliban regime in Kabul, after reports of an Afghan foreign policy body asking officials to attend an online programme under an Indian initiative.

Taliban forces killed a top ISIS terrorist who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan's capital, a government official said.

Taliban detained a social media influencer and former member of security forces in the previous government in Kabul, Afghanistan's vernacular media Reporterly reported.

A senior Pakistani police official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Monday's blast took place told AFP the Kabul delegation would hold "talks with the top brass".

Ashraf Ghani, the former Afghanistan President who fled the country when the Taliban grabbed power in Kabul, was "a total fraud" solely focused on his own desire to stay in power and a big hurdle in any peace talks,

Mannequins at women's dress shops in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is currently under Taliban rule, were seen with their heads wrapped using plastic bags and faces covered with aluminium foil.

Gunmen shot dead an Afghan former lawmaker and one of her bodyguards in the capital Kabul in a night-time attack at her home, police said on Sunday.

A woman asks her the price of the pen and the little seller says 20 cents. The woman asks her something that brings smile to the girl's face. She asks if she can buy all the pens.

The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) in Kabul described Australia's decision as "pathetic"

Afghanistan on Wednesday was rocked by the suicide attack outside the Taliban Foreign Ministry in Kabul, resulting in the deaths of five persons and injuring others, according to officials reported Dawn.

The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing outside the foreign ministry in Kabul that officials and witnesses said killed at least five people and wounded 40 others.