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Six months ago, an ominous sense of déjà vu swept over Afghanistan as the Taliban took control of the country. Unconvinced by the group's pledges to rule differently than in the 1990s, tens of thousands of Afghans fled. While some were evacuated by foreign powers, others had little choice but…

Six months after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the health system is collapsing. Amid the deteriorating humanitarian situation, a raging measles outbreak has already killed more than 150 people and infected tens of thousands more in January alone. Measles is not the only sanitary threat facing young children in the…

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule. The country feels safer, less violent than it has in decades, but the once aid-fueled economy is barreling toward collapse. Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled or have been evacuated, including large numbers of the educated…

Representatives of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) held talks with a Taliban delegation, led by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Qatar’s capital, Doha, on Monday. They discussed the situation in Afghanistan and means to address the challenges facing humanitarian work in the country. GCC officials expressed concern that “terrorist…

Afghanistan has undergone a dramatic transformation in half a year of Taliban rule

Under former Tory MP Rory Stewart’s plans, countries would take in an agreed number of refugees annually

Pakistan is allowing nuclear rival India to deliver tons of wheat to ease food shortages in Afghanistan

KABUL: One after the other, quickly, carefully, keeping their heads down, a group of Afghan women step into a small Kabul apartment block -- risking their lives as a nascent resistance against the Taliban.

The Taliban on Monday warned that it would reconsider its policy towards the United States if President Joe Biden did not reverse his "unjustified" decision to return only half of Afghanistan's $7 billion deposited on U.S. soil.