Afghanistan Taliban Crisis Latest News

According to the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), more than 900,000 Afghans have lost their jobs since the Taliban took control last August.

Around 1,000 Taliban supporters attended a rally on Sunday in a vast field to the north of Kabul, in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan.

The Taliban has written to the DGCA, or Directorate General of Civil Aviation, to ask for the resumption of commercial flights between India and Afghanistan (Kabul).

The Taliban said today they will temporarily adopt a 1964 constitution that granted women the right to vote but eliminate any elements they disagree with.

Zarghunna Noori has always been a fighter, but the 22-year-old taekwondo champion -- who dreamt of representing Afghanistan at the Olympics -- says she has finally met her match.

The United Nations aid chief said Wednesday he had released $45 million in emergency funds to help prevent Afghanistan's battered healthcare system from collapsing.

The Taliban on Tuesday said girls would soon be allowed to return to school, after announcing the remaining positions in its government, with no women added to the all-male line-up.

Taliban spokesman names remaining cabinet members, no women's ministry announced: news agency AFP

A 50-year-old Afghan man of Indian origin - was reportedly abducted at gunpoint last night from the Karte Parwan area of Kabul, according to a tweet by Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa.

Scores of Afghan women were forced by the Taliban to gather at Kabul University dressed in head-to-toe black robes that they had distributed on the anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks. Those who dared to refuse, say students, were to be expelled.

A Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying a handful of passengers touched down at Kabul airport Monday, the first international commercial flight to land since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan on August 15.

Less than a month after the Taliban rolled into the Afghan capital, Rabia Jamal made a tough decision -- she would brave the hardliners and return to work at the airport.

Two hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan are set to depart the war-ravaged country on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday after the new Taliban government agreed to their evacuation, a U.S. official said.

Panjshiri leader Ahmad Shah Massoud and former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh have not fled Afghanistan and their resistance forces are still fighting the Taliban, the ousted Afghan government's ambassador to Tajikistan said on Wednesday.

The Taliban's interim government, drawn from their own loyalist ranks, has hardliners in all key posts and no women - far from the "inclusive" administration it had promised. In growing protests against the group, 2 were shot dead in Herat yesterday.

According to the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), more than 900,000 Afghans have lost their jobs since the Taliban took control last August.

Around 1,000 Taliban supporters attended a rally on Sunday in a vast field to the north of Kabul, in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan.

The Taliban has written to the DGCA, or Directorate General of Civil Aviation, to ask for the resumption of commercial flights between India and Afghanistan (Kabul).

The Taliban said today they will temporarily adopt a 1964 constitution that granted women the right to vote but eliminate any elements they disagree with.

Zarghunna Noori has always been a fighter, but the 22-year-old taekwondo champion -- who dreamt of representing Afghanistan at the Olympics -- says she has finally met her match.

The United Nations aid chief said Wednesday he had released $45 million in emergency funds to help prevent Afghanistan's battered healthcare system from collapsing.

The Taliban on Tuesday said girls would soon be allowed to return to school, after announcing the remaining positions in its government, with no women added to the all-male line-up.

Taliban spokesman names remaining cabinet members, no women's ministry announced: news agency AFP

A 50-year-old Afghan man of Indian origin - was reportedly abducted at gunpoint last night from the Karte Parwan area of Kabul, according to a tweet by Akali Dal leader Manjinder Sirsa.

Scores of Afghan women were forced by the Taliban to gather at Kabul University dressed in head-to-toe black robes that they had distributed on the anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks. Those who dared to refuse, say students, were to be expelled.

A Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying a handful of passengers touched down at Kabul airport Monday, the first international commercial flight to land since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan on August 15.

Less than a month after the Taliban rolled into the Afghan capital, Rabia Jamal made a tough decision -- she would brave the hardliners and return to work at the airport.

Two hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan are set to depart the war-ravaged country on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday after the new Taliban government agreed to their evacuation, a U.S. official said.

Panjshiri leader Ahmad Shah Massoud and former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh have not fled Afghanistan and their resistance forces are still fighting the Taliban, the ousted Afghan government's ambassador to Tajikistan said on Wednesday.

The Taliban's interim government, drawn from their own loyalist ranks, has hardliners in all key posts and no women - far from the "inclusive" administration it had promised. In growing protests against the group, 2 were shot dead in Herat yesterday.