China’s government says Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting that has killed hundreds of people.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, killing at least eight members of a refugee family near Kabul.

Peace talks between Afghanistan’s Taliban government and Pakistan are advancing, China’s government said, two days after those countries resumed conversations after weeks of fighting that have killed hundreds.

Pakistan confirms it is holding peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban government in China.

Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban governments have resumed talks in China, which is mediating between the two sides to broker a durable ceasefire after weeks of fighting.

Afghan authorities say that flooding in many parts of the country has killed a further 14 people in the past 24 hours.

Afghan authorities say that severe flooding, a landslide and thunderstorms in parts of Afghanistan have left 17 people dead and 26 injured over the last 24 hours.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says that authorities have released American academic Dennis Coyle, held in Afghanistan since January 2025.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have declared a temporary pause in escalating fighting.

Rescue crews are digging bodies from the rubble of a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul.

Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a drug rehabilitation hospital in the Afghan capital with an airstrike.

Pakistan's president says that Afghanistan’s Taliban government has “crossed a red line” with drone attacks that wounded several people a day earlier.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to mediate for a new ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Pakistan says that Afghan forces have attacked Pakistani military positions along the border, triggering intense clashes that left 67 Afghan troops and one Pakistani soldier dead.

Afghanistan says it has thwarted an attempted Pakistani airstrike on Bagram Air Base, the former U.S. military base north of Kabul.

Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson says.

Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan and says it killed at least 70 Pakistani militants blamed for attacks at home.

Pakistan’s president warns that the Taliban's government in Afghanistan has created conditions “similar to or worse than” those before the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Heavy snow and rainfall over the past three days have killed more than 60 people and injured over 100 across Afghanistan, the country’s disaster management authority says, as authorities in the impoverished country struggle to open roads and gain access to cut-off villages.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least seven people including a Chinese national and wounded more than a dozen others.

Afghanistan’s annual buzkashi tournament has concluded, with Sar-e-Pul defeating Badakhshan 7-0 in the final.

Pakistan’s prime minister has offered talks to Afghanistan’s Taliban government in a renewed peace overture.

Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Istanbul have ended without agreement.

Pakistan's Information Minister says peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have failed in Istanbul after four days of negotiations.

Officials in Afghanistan and Pakistan say delegations are going to Turkey for a second round of crisis talks.

Police in Pakistan say that three police officers have been killed when a powerful roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s northwest.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says Pakistan carried out two drone strikes on Kabul the day before.

Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace.

The Taliban government accuses Pakistan of bombing Kabul and a market in eastern Afghanistan.

India is upgrading its technical mission in Kabul to a full embassy, according to India's foreign minister.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan is urging the Taliban government to immediately restore nationwide internet and telecommunications access.

The Taliban have freed a U.S. citizen from an Afghan prison.

A Taliban crackdown to “prevent immorality” is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fiber-optic internet after the country’s leader imposed a complete ban on the technology.

The Taliban says that they've reached agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and Afghanistan.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has shaken eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.

The Taliban say helicopters will shower Kabul with flowers to celebrate the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan.

The World Food Program says Afghanistan is having its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the Taliban's arrest of women and girls for alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code.

An aid agency official says Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts.

The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan.

An American woman who was detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released.

A suspected participant in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has arrived in the U.S. to face criminal charges in connection with the attack.

The Taliban say an Afghan women’s radio station will resume broadcasts after its operations were suspended over alleged cooperation with an overseas TV channel.

An Afghan government spokesperson says a blast at a ministry compound in Kabul has killed one person and injured three.

The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan's only luxury hotel, more than a decade after launching a deadly assault on it.

The Taliban is rejecting a court move to arrest their leaders for persecuting Afghan women and girls.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he has requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials over the repression of women.

A senior Taliban figure says the group's leader should scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls.

Peace is driving up property prices in Kabul and fueling the luxury market.

A Taliban official says official media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws.

The Taliban say gunmen have killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan.

House Republicans have released a scathing report on their investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Taliban is rejecting concerns and criticism raised by the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public.

A top UN official is warning that the Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws provide a distressing vision for Afghanistan’s future.

The Taliban say it's mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and bare faces in public.

The Taliban have deliberately deprived at least 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans.

Taliban officials say heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan have killed at least 40 people and injured nearly 350 others.

A Taliban official says that a storm that brought heavy rainfall to eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 35 people.

A Taliban official said that at least 20 people were killed as a river ferry sank in eastern Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's Taliban have confirmed the resumption of Turkish Airlines flights to Kabul’s international airport.

The Taliban are warning journalists and experts against working with Afghanistan International TV.

The school year in Afghanistan has started but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education.

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have carried out a double public execution at a stadium in the southeast of the country.

In a story published January 22, 2024, about a U.N. report on restrictions imposed on women in Taliban-run Afghanistan, The Associated Press erroneously reported a quote by U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

A Taliban official says a minibus has exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others.

A senior Taliban official says security forces in Afghanistan killed a number of Tajik and Pakistani nationals and arrested scores others involved in attacks against religious clerics, the public, and mosques in Afghanistan.

Afghan schoolgirls are weeping as they finish sixth grade, knowing their education is over.

Rights group Afghan Witness says online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active Afghan women significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021.

Officials from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban welcomed the resumption of FlyDubai flights to Kabul international airport.

A report from the U.N. drugs agency says Afghan farmers lost more than $1 billion of cash income from opium sales after the Taliban banned poppy cultivation.

Amnesty International is urging Pakistan to maintain its support for Afghan refugees by enabling them to live with dignity and be free from the fear of deportation to Afghanistan where they face persecution by the Taliban.

The Pentagon’s Central Command has ordered interviews of roughly two dozen more service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during U.S. forces’ chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, as criticism persists that the deadly assault could have been stopped.

Afghanistan is now the world's fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine.

The United Nations has released $125 million from its emergency relief fund to boost underfunded humanitarian operations in 14 countries around the world, saying needs are skyrocketing.

The U.N. food agency says it is forced to drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan in September due to a massive funding shortfall.

The chief Taliban spokesman says the Taliban view their rule of Afghanistan as open-ended, drawing legitimacy from Islamic law and facing no significant threat.

The Taliban says all beauty salons in Afghanistan must now close as a one-month deadline ended, despite rare public opposition to the edict.

Afghan women protesting a beauty salon ban say the Taliban used stun guns, fire hoses and gun shots into the air to break up their demonstration.

A spokesman at Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry says the Taliban are banning women's beauty salons.

A State Department report says the department failed to do enough contingency planning before the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan.

A Taliban official says a bombing in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province killed at least 13 people during a memorial service.

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A U.K.-based rights group is launching an interactive map documenting human rights abuses and violence against civilians since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.

Afghan religious scholars say the government's ban on girls' education is un-Islamic.

President Joe Biden’s administration is laying the blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of Biden’s presidency.

The Taliban say their forces in Afghanistan have killed six members of the extremist Islamic State group during a raid in the country's north.

House Republicans plan to deliver a subpoena to Secretary of State Antony Blinken for classified cables related to the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Active-service members and veterans have provided first-hand testimony in the House of Representatives about the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, describing in harrowing detail the carnage and death they witnessed on the ground.

The United Nations says that since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the country has become the most repressive in the world for women and girls.

Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks during separate raids in Kabul.

U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba have returned two Pakistani brothers to their home country.

A rare public show of division is emerging in the ranks of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.

Dozens of Afghans have rushed to the Kabul airport following a rumor that an airlift operation was flying people to Turkey to help with the deadly earthquake rescue.

Police say a former Afghan female lawmaker and her bodyguard were shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in the capital, Kabul.

An aid agency chief has told The Associated Press that the Taliban's “internal debates and extreme decrees” are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan.

The U.N. says one of its top officials has met with the Taliban-led government's higher education minister, who ordered a ban on women in Afghan universities last month.

The Afghan Taliban have killed eight Islamic State group fighters and arrested nine others in raids against the militants' hideouts in Afghanistan.

A spokesman for the Taliban-led government says a bombing at a military airport checkpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed and wounded several people.

Taliban security forces in Afghanistan's capital city are upholding a higher education ban for women by blocking access to university campuses.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned female students from universities effective immediately.