Afghanistan will face a new civil war, a top Russian security official has warned, if the Taliban and the world community fail to normalize the situation in the war-ravaged,  food-starved country soon

At least two people were killed and over two dozen were wounded on Friday when a bomb exploded in a mosque in eastern Afghanistan amid the fear of growing ISKP threat following the collapse of the US-backed Afghan government in August this year

More than a score of terrorist organizations having a total strength of 23,000 militants are operating in Afghanistan at the moment, according to different estimates, Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, told Russian media in New Delhi following multilateral consultations on Afghanistan on Wednesday

The Taliban, the new rulers of Afghanistan, has allowed the girls’ schools of higher secondary level to open in the western city of Herat, almost after three months after the group captured power

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNICEF, a UN agency for children and women, began on Monday a nationwide polio vaccination drive-- the first in the last three years--in Afghanistan, the country now under the complete control of the hardline Islamist group, the Taliban

About 20 people were killed and over 50 injured in an attack on a military hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, the latest assault to rock Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power

The anti-Taliban resistance front led by Ahmad Massoud and former Afghan first vice president Amrullah Saleh has announced they would resume their fighting soon against the Taliban, reported Russian news agency TASS, as the group’s leaders, believed to be based in neighboring Tajikistan, are trying to lobby support from key international players and regional powers

Russia, which became an important player after the US exit from Afghanistan, has been walking a thin line on the Taliban, staying away from outrightly recognizing the hardline Islamist regime while, at the same time, stressing the importance of continuing engagement with the Taliban

The Taliban plans to create a new national army, said Taliban’s Defense Minister Mullah Yaqoob, adding the new force would be capable of defending the country’s territorial integrity

The European Union (EU) is considering restoring its diplomatic mission in Afghanistan in the coming months as the bloc moves to explore ways to deal with the Taliban, the new rulers of Afghanistan

The collapse of the former government was not in the interest of the Afghan people, Taliban Spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid said, adding the situation would have been much better if they had reached a meaningful peace deal

On 16th August 2021, a day after the Taliban captured Kabul, the group’s leader Haibatullah Akhundzada issued a statement, claiming the war was over in Afghanistan

The Taliban, the new rulers of Afghanistan, praised its suicide bombers who died during the war in the last twenty years, fighting against the former government and its Western allies, and has offered their families and relatives sums of cash and promise of land

Russia is not ready to recognize the Taliban for now, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding Moscow will work with other countries to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan

Zalmay Khalilzad, who negotiated the 2020 Doha Deal with the Taliban, resigned on Tuesday--almost two months after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan--as the US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, the US State Department confirmed