Spain's foreign minister condemned the Taliban's restrictions on women at a conference in Madrid attended by dozens of Afghan women activists and representatives from various countries.
Yue Xiaoyong, China's envoy to Afghanistan, announced his meeting with Sharaf Rahimi, head of the strategic studies department of the Tajik Foreign Ministry.
In its annual report on terrorism, the US State Department announced that the Taliban continues to host and shelter al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Andrés Efren Montalvo Sosa, head of the UN Sanctions Committee said on Thursday (December 12) that a number of key Taliban officials are complicit in drug cartels and production and trafficking networks.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations Security Council, has warned that ISIS is actively seeking to destabilise Afghanistan and the wider region.
A Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that a United Nations Security Council meeting on Afghanistan without the presence of a representative of the group is "useless”.
The Taliban's Supreme Court announced the flogging of two people for alleged extramarital affairs in Kabul.
Tim Burchett, a pro-Trump representative in the US Congress, told Afghanistan International that he had invited Ahmad Massoud, the leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF), to visit Washington and discuss Afghanistan.
he Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) announced that the source of the constant threats from terrorist groups is from the territory of Afghanistan.
The Taliban in Kabul has banned the broadcast of music in the media.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education announced that it has revoked the operating licences of 11 private educational institutions in nine provinces and has referred their officials to judicial bodies.
In response to Afghanistan International's investigative report on the torture of prisoners in Taliban prisons, the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) said that the report is just the tip of the iceberg as compared to the "crimes" committed by the Taliban.
Suhail Shaheen, the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, announced that he met with Jean-Marin Schuh, chargé d'affaires of the French embassy in Afghanistan.
The Taliban has accused ISIS of carrying out the assassination of Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the group’s Minister for Refugees, in what they described as a “brutal attack”.
The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on Afghanistan on Thursday, December 12. The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva is scheduled to speak at the meeting on the situation in Afghanistan.
Sources have confirmed to Afghanistan International that Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban’s Minister for Refugees, has been killed in an explosion.
Rina Amiri, the US envoy for Afghan women, said on Tuesday that the Taliban's discriminatory policies have added to the suffering of the people, especially Afghan women.
On International Human Rights Day (December 10), a Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the group accepts human rights principles within the "framework of Sharia law and Afghan culture”.
Taliban members set fire to a man in Khyber District, Faryab province, on charges of being a member of the National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan. In a video provided to Afghanistan International, Taliban gunmen can be seen gathering around the man's body.
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day (December 10), the UN special rapporteur on human rights Richard Bennett said that Afghans face gender abuse, civil restrictions, torture and humanitarian crisis.
Coinciding with the International Human Rights Day (December 10), the Taliban's Supreme Court announced that it had flogged a woman and a man in public on charges of "sexual relations" outside of marriage.