A senior police officer and two wanted Pakistani Taliban members died in an intense shootout set off when police raided a militant hideout early Tuesday in the country’s northwest, a local police official said. PAKISTAN’S IMRAN KHAN AND HIS WIFE PLEAD NOT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members demanded Monday that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and women’s right to
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban carried out a double public execution Thursday at a stadium in the country’s southeast, where relatives of the victims of stabbing deaths fired guns at two convicted men while thousands of people watched. The Taliban’s Supreme Court ruled that
A landslide triggered by heavy rain and snowfall buried more than two dozen houses in a remote village in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five people and leaving more than 20 others missing, a provincial official said Monday. ‘UNACCEPTABLE’: TALIBAN DEMANDED TREATMENT
The Taliban set unacceptable conditions for attending a U.N.-sponsored meeting about Afghanistan, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday. Taliban demands included the exclusion of Afghan civil society members from the talks in Doha, Qatar, and treatment that amounted to official recognition of
Late last month, the Taliban ambassador to China, Bilal Karimi, presented his credentials to Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, making China the first country to accept a Taliban ambassador. It is a “normal diplomatic arrangement for
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, Afghan Ambassador to Austria Manizha Bakhtari faced a serious dilemma. Should she continue to represent the former government from her Viennese post or abandon her title and role? “We were in
F18 fighter jets had to be deployed after a teen’s Snapchat message to a friend accidentally sparked a terror alert onboard a packed flight. EasyJet passenger Aditya Verma, 18, was heading on vacation when he jokingly sent a message to a friend
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The Taliban government in Afghanistan officially announced the resumption of Air Arabia flights to Kabul’s international airport after a two-year hiatus. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation confirmed the landing of the first Air Arabia flight on Wednesday. The ministry said