Turkey and Qatar are working to resume normal flights to Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, the United States State Department spokesperson said yesterday. Ned Price said that the Taliban...

Iran, emboldened by the messy US withdrawal from Afghanistan, is betting that its new hardline cabinet — including Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani — can force concessions in...

Passenger flights between Iran and Afghanistan resumed today, Iran's state-run Al-Alam TV channel reported. According to Reuters, an Iranian Mahan Air plane landed in Kabul with 19 passengers on board, coming from the...

The world watched as the Taliban swept across Afghanistan and seized the capital Kabul, and the faction announcement of an interim government on 7 September was further evidence of...

Terror threats emanating from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq pose a greater danger to the United States than those that might emerge from Afghanistan, the Director of National Intelligence...

Israelis are concerned about the shameful American withdrawal from Afghanistan and think that their government now needs to reassert its ability to protect its own interests in the region...

The acting Secretary-General of Algeria's National Organisation of Mujahideen, Mohand Ouamar Benelhadj, yesterday rebuked the country's former foreign minister, Lakhdar Brahimi, over his recent statements about the US forces'...

The Pentagon spent up to $7 billion on contractors who "took advantage of wartime conditions" in the wake of 9/11, a new study released on Monday suggests. The figure...

The UN secretary-general on Monday declared a flash appeal conference a success, with more than $1 billion in pledges made at a special high-level ministerial meeting on Afghanistan's humanitarian...

There are relatively few truly world-changing events, but the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001 was one. Regardless of the numerous theories that have surrounded...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars sent a congratulatory message to Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund on Sunday, following his appointment by the Taliban as the new Prime Minister of...

Taliban's spokesperson Suhail Shaheen has said that his movement proposed cooperating with the US after the 9/11 attacks instead of American forces invading Afghanistan, but the US refused, Anadolu reported yesterday....

The Palestinian public observed keenly the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. For most Palestinians, it represented a window of hope and a major morale boost; if the greatest world power...

Pakistan and Qatar urged the US today to unfreeze Afghanistan's assets to save the country from total economic collapse, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking at a joint news conference in...

The United Arab Emirates said today residents who had been fully vaccinated with a shot approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) could return as of 12 September from...

The Taliban government banned women from competing in sport, claiming it is "inappropriate" and "not necessary", the Guardian reported yesterday. The claim for banning women competing in sports was...

The Taliban has announced that its government aims to establish ties and diplomatic relations with all countries of the world, except for Israel. According to the group's spokesman Suhail...

A teenager who arrived in the UK as an unaccompanied minor has committed suicide believing he might be deported back to Afghanistan after his eighteenth birthday. The 19-year-old, who...

Suddenly, the idea put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron late last year does not seem so far-fetched or untenable after all. Following the hurried US-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan,...

Turkey on Wednesday denied claims that it granted citizenship to 3,000 Afghan nationals in return for payment, Anadolu reports. "The claims that the US made 3,000 Afghans nationals the...

Two schools of thought have emerged to explain the defeat of the West in the so-called "war on terror". With proponents such as acclaimed CIA analyst and author Michael...

Since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the world's top diplomats have been beating a path to Qatar, long the gateway to the Taliban and now the essential go-between as the...

Turkey can give the mission of protecting Afghanistan's Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport to a private security company, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday. Speaking to Turkish broadcaster NTV, Cavusoglu said...

It seems that the clouds of the Afghan crisis will rain in Yemen and bring with them more disasters than they did with the government of Ashraf Ghani. It...

In the wake of the group taking over Afghanistan last month, the Taliban should be judged by their actions, not by their words, Italy's foreign minister said Tuesday. "Italy's...

The Turkish foreign minister in an interview on Tuesday said "it would be a wrong decision if Turkey entirely withdraws from Afghanistan", Anadolu Agency reported. In the interview with a Turkish...

The Taliban on Tuesday announced an "interim government" in Afghanistan to be led by Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, Anadolu Agency reported. The announcement came a day after the group said they...

Think tank Transnational Institute (TNI) has called on the European Union (EU) to spend its resources saving lives, instead of punishing people seeking safety on its shores. Europe had...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Qatar on Monday as Washington seeks support for the evacuation of Americans and at-risk Afghans left behind in Afghanistan and build...

Students across Afghanistan have started returning to university for the first time since the Taliban stormed to power, and in some cases females have been separated from their male...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said the UK should be "proud of its legacy" in Afghanistan, despite the total takeover of the country by the Taliban and...

In a first direct rebuke of the Taliban since the group took control of the Afghan capital Kabul last month, Iran on Monday termed developments in the besieged Panjshir...