Norwegian Refugee Council chief Jan Egeland said on Jan. 19 that the U.S. order to halt foreign aid for 90 days will be "disastrous" in Afghanistan.

Despite the Taliban’s attempts to erase the nation’s cultural identity, Afghan artists are hopeful that art can outlive even the most oppressive regimes.

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in a US prison.

A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges

The Taliban won’t return any of the military equipment left behind by the US troops while exiting Afghanistan in 2021, a person familiar with the matter said.

Gunmen killed a Chinese coal mine worker in an attack in Afghanistan, according to an Afghan official Wednesday. “Unknown” armed men opened fire and killed the Chinese worker who was traveling on Tuesday in northern Takhar province which borders Tajikistan, Taleban's Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani told reporters.

Relations between the Afghan Taliban and Islamabad have cratered, with the Pakistani military triggering tensions with its air strikes on Afghanistan

KABUL: A Chinese mine worker was killed in an attack in Afghanistan, police said Wednesday, where the Taliban government is trying to project an image of security to encourage investment from Beijing.

A Chinese citizen was "murdered" in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, the Taliban provincial police said on Wednesday, adding that a preliminary investigation had been launched

A 90-day suspension of all aid, no new grants, no new transfer of funding, will have disastrous consequences immediately … for an already starved aid operation for very poor and vulnerable girls and women and civilians in Afghanistan,