Pakistan-Afghanistan talks in Istanbul hit a deadlock as the Taliban refused to commit to “verifiable measures” against the TTP. Pakistan accused Kabul of shielding militants even as fresh border infiltrations occurred during the dialogue.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers blocked internet access nationally for two days without any explanation, but suddenly, the country is coming back online.

In early September, Abdul Latif Nazari, deputy minister of the economy of the Taliban-led interim government in Afghanistan, said

Afghanistan faces near-total digital blackout after Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada's directive dismantled the country's fibre-optic network infrastructure.

Some four years after players from the Afghanistan women's national team fled their homeland amid the Taliban's takeover, a number of the teammates are representing their country once more in an international soccer tournament.

Pakistan’s defence ministry said Pakistan bombed a civilian market in the border province of Paktika, in Afghanistan's south-east. Pakistan did not claim responsibility for Thursday’s attacks but blamed Afghanistan for harbouring fighters of the Pakistani Taliban.

Trumpeter fled Afghanistan after the Taliban, who prohibit music, regained power. He's seeking asylum in the U.S. along with other refugees

The tenuous peace between Pakistan and Afghanistan appears to have ended after days of escalating conflict that came to a head as Afghanistan accused its neighbor of carrying out airstrikes on its territory on Friday.

The European Union confirmed on Monday it has initiated exploratory contacts with the Taliban government in Afghanistan as part of efforts to increase the number of deportations of failed asylum

The Taliban should end the arbitrary detention, torture, and other ill-treatment of journalists, discriminatory restrictions on women journalists, and censorship. Countries with Afghan journalists in exile should end their forced return to Afghanistan.