Afghanistan is staring at a breakdown of its economic and social systems, European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said, warning the risk of the crisis turning into a "humanitarian catastrophe."

At least two people were killed and many others were wounded when an explosion happened outside Kabul’s Eid Gah Mosque, where a memorial prayer was happening for the mother of Taliban’s deputy cultural minister and spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid

The Taliban’s move of banning girls from secondary education is "a step backward", Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said, terming it “disappointing”  and said that the group can learn from Qatar how to run an Islamic system

The Taliban has warned the United States against violating its air space and said if it did not stop flying drones over Afghan airspace there would be consequences

One and a half months in power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has already reinforced people’s feara about the return of the dark days of the nineties as the policies adopted by the group so far have offered few incentives to believe otherwise

Thousands of Afghans managed to get out of their country by faking their professions as journalists and activists, claimed the Afghanistan Civil Society And Journalist Group, which lashed out at western countries for not vetting applications properly

An international inquiry into the Afghan war crime case is likely to be resumed as the prosector has sought permission from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an investigation into the crimes committed by the Taliban and the ISIS-K, a media report said

International recognition of the Taliban government was not currently under consideration, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, adding his country's approach is in line with those of Pakistan, US, and China to see if the group forms a truly inclusive government as it had promised earlier

Many businesses and shops owned and run by women in Kabul, the Afghan capital, are closing their operations amid harsh economic conditions and an oppressive atmosphere with the return of the Taliban in Kabul, media reports say

The Taliban on Tuesday announced new appointments, all male and mostly deputies ministers,  for their interim government and included two powerful field commanders from the group’s southern stronghold to balance what many calls regional power dynamics within the group

Educated women protested in Kabul over the apparent ban the Taliban has put on girls from attending secondary schools where boys have been allowed to resume their learning

Independent journalists in Afghanistan will “just disappear”, warned the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), a global trade union of media workers, as over 153 media outlets ceased their operations since the Taliban take over in the country last month, and the prospect of an independent media looks “bleak”

Pakistan booked a cleric for sedition and terror charges after he hoisted the Afghan Taliban flag--the third time since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan-- on the rooftop of a seminary he runs in the country’s capital Islamabad

In what comes as another blow to Afghan women, the Taliban abolished the country’s Ministry of Women Affairs, almost a month after the group seized power in Afghanistan, toppling the US-backed government in Kabul and replaced it with the “Ministry of Vice and Virtue.”

Supporters of two Taliban leaders indulged in a brawl earlier this month at the presidential palace in Kabul days after the group announced the new interim government, a report in BBC Pashto claimed, indicating serious differences among different groups in the movement