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The Taliban are inching closer towards international recognition but any concessions Afghanistan's new rulers make will be on their terms, the regime's foreign minister said in an interview with AFP. In his first interview since returning from talks with Western powers in Oslo, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also urged…

Throughout Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s humanist, candid and melancholy Oslo-set romantic drama, “The Worst Person in the World,” you may find yourself wondering who the titular character might be. Is it Julia (Renata Reinsve), the indecisive, impulsive, entrancing heroine at the center of the story? Is it Aksel (Anders Danielsen…

Analysts say talks between Taliban and US and European officials imply a ‘de facto’ recognition of the Taliban gov’t.

Norway is known as an international mediator and has long been in contact with various war parties in countries around the world. Amongst these groups is Taliban which has had contacts with Norwegian politicians ever since 2005, when they regrouped following their fall from power in 2001. The summit on…

The last day of talks between the Taliban and western diplomats has began in Oslo with a bilateral meeting with Norwegian government officials focused largely on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. The three-day talks opened on Sunday with talks between the Taliban and members of Afghan civil society, followed on…

The last day of talks between the Taliban and western diplomats has began in Oslo with a bilateral meeting with Norwegian government officials focused largely on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan

U.S. and European diplomats began talks with representatives of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Monday on how to alleviate the country's humanitarian crisis.

After ‘a positive icebreaking meeting’ with Afghan activists, the group holds talks with Western officials.

Western diplomats are meeting with Afghan women’s rights activists and human rights defenders in Oslo ahead of the first official talks with the Taliban in Europe since they took over control of Afghanistan in August

A Taliban delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Sunday started three days of talks in Oslo with Western officials and Afghan civil society representatives amid a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. The closed-door meetings are taking place at a hotel in the snow-capped mountains above the…

Al Jazeera has learned that the Afghan group will be pushed on women’s rights in return for access to frozen funds.