Taliban fighters resort to celebratory gunfire, 70 feared dead or hurt in Afghanistan
Kabul: Over 70 people died or were injured in Afghanistan on Friday night as Taliban fighters opened gunshots in the air as part of their celebration, media reports said.
Taliban members use tear gas to disperse women rights rally in Kabul
Kabul/UNI/SPUTNIK: The Taliban have shot in the air and fired tear gas at female activists in the Afghan capital to disperse a demonstration in support of women's rights, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Saturday.
Afghanistan: Taliban claims to have taken control of Panjshir province
Kabul/UNI/Sputnik: A strategically important area of the defiant Panjshir province, Khenj, and the Anaba district of Afghanistan have fallen to the Taliban, the insurgent group's spokesman Bilal Karimi said Saturday.
Afghanistan: Women demonstrate against Taliban over right to work under new regime
Kabul: A large number of women in Herat demonstrated for their right to work under a new regime as the Taliban is all set to form a government in the war-torn country.
Taliban senior official discusses issue of reconstructing Afghanistan with Pakistani diplomat
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: Deputy Director of the Political Office of the Taliban movement Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has discussed the reconstruction of Afghanistan among other issues with the Pakistani ambassador to Qatar, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said.
Afghanistan crisis: Taliban spokesman says woman in Hijab will be able to get education, work
Washington/UNI/Sputnik: Afghan women in hijab will have access to education and work, Taliban (banned in Russia) spokesman Suhail Shaheen said, adding that the United States should not try to change the culture of the country.
Have not fled Panjshir, says Afghanistan’s caretaker president Saleh
Kabul/UNI: Amrullah Saleh, who has declared himself Afghanistan’s caretaker president and has joined the Resistance forces in Panjshir valley, on Friday said that he has not fled the country, and squarely blamed Pakistan for backing the Taliban and terrorist groups like Al Qaeda that have surrounded the province.
China promised to maintain embassy in Kabul, increase humanitarian aid, says Taliban
Beijing/Kabul: China has promised to maintain its embassy in Afghanistan and also increase humanitarian aid to the war-torn country, a Taliban spokesman said Friday, according to media reports.
Afghanistan mass evacuation: US officials warn of possible threats to homeland
Washington: US officials are on high alert over possible threats to the homeland following the mass evacuation of Afghanistan and devastating attack in Kabul last week.
Recent events in Afghanistan traumatised everyone: Expert
Geo-political expert Dr Syed Akhtar Ali Shah has said the tragic events that unfolded in Afghanistan, the country which was overrun by Taliban in recent days, left everyone traumatised and sorrowful.
Afghanistan: PanjshirValley witnessing heavy conflict between Taliban, opponents
Panjshir Valley: The Panjshir Valley, the region which is still under the control of the anti-Taliban forces, witnessed a bitter battle between Taliban and its opponents since Thursday night, media reports said.
Vladimir Putin describes developments in Afghanistan as 'Humanitarian Catastrophe'
Vladivostok, Russia/UNI/SPUTNIK: Russian President Vladimir Putin described the situation in Afghanistan after the US troops withdrawal as a humanitarian catastrophe.
Panjshir left without electricity as transmission towers destroyed in clashes: Company
Moscow/UNI/SPUTNIK: Afghanistan's northern province of Panjshir and parts of Kapisa province were left without electricity after at least two electricity pylons were destroyed in a shelling during the continuing clashes, local power utility company DABS said on Friday.
Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar to head the Afghan govt: Report
Kabul: Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar will lead a new Afghan government that will be announced soon, sources in the fighter group said, reported media.
UN experts urge Afghanistan’s new rulers to prohibit torture ‘in any circumstances’
New York: Experts serving on a UN human rights treaty body called on Thursday for the new Taliban-led authorities of Afghanistan to uphold “the international obligations of the State”, particularly in complying with all provisions of the Convention against Torture, outlawing the practice “in any circumstances”.