US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will withdraw the US weapons left in Afghanistan from the Taliban.
The Taliban’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs has admitted that the group’s decision to bar girls from attending schools and universities lacks any religious justification.
Zhao Xing, China's ambassador to Kabul on Monday said at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Afghanistan and China that Beijing does not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
A senior Republican senator has said that he is concerned about the group's attack on the United States as the Islamic State grows in Afghanistan and wars spread around the world.
During a meeting with the Taliban, Iran's deputy interior minister Ali Akbar Pourjamshidian called for "the establishment of a direct channel of communication between Iran's intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies" and the Taliban.
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) has claimed responsibility for an explosion in the central square of Pol-e-Khomri city, targeting a convoy of Taliban intelligence vehicles.
Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), described the denial of girls’ education in Afghanistan as “heartbreaking” and “intolerable” during a visit to a women’s carpet-weaving centre in Herat.
The Pakistan Army's Public Relations Office announced that it has handed over the body of an Afghan militant who was killed in a clash with Pakistani security forces in Zhob, Balochistan, to the Taliban.
Pakistan's special envoy to Afghanistan said that he had discussed with his Iranian counterpart the international geopolitical situation and the regional challenges facing the two countries.
The head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry's mission in South Khorasan has said that the ministry is ready to set up an Afghan consulate in Birjand.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US envoy to Afghanistan, called the statements of Abbas Stanekzai, the Taliban's deputy foreign minister, about the group's violation of women's rights and opposition to the closure of schools and universities a "promising development".
Kioumars Heydari, Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces, has announced the completion of 50 kilometres of a border wall along Iran’s shared boundary with Afghanistan.
The Taliban has announced that Iran will soon transfer 1,500 Afghan prisoners to Afghanistan. The announcement, made by the Taliban’s Supreme Court, did not provide specific details regarding the timing or conditions of the transfer.