WASHINGTON: US officials held their first wide-ranging talks, since the 2021 pullout from Kabul

that operation shifts to help Americans and Afghans left behind, the senior State Department official

name. AFGHAN BABY HANDED TO US TROOPS DURING EVACUATION CHAOS RETURNED TO FAMILY Taliban spokesman

NEW DELHI( Reuters)-Afghan women should not be allowed to work alongside men, a senior figure in

The network is the only wing of the Taliban to be classified by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization.... Among the three leaders is Sirajuddin Haqqani, who heads up the network and is the acting Taliban interior minister.Mr.... The bounty was removed on Monday from the F.B.I.’s wanted poster for Sirajuddin Haqqani. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like....

temporarily house Afghan refugees who don't pass the initial round of vetting, senior U.S. officials

and raised questions about the effectiveness of the military’s training of Afghan security forces

image source, EPA image captionMullah Nooruddin Turabi, not pictured, said punishments such as amputations were" necessary" The Taliban's notorious former head of religious police has said extreme punishments such as executions and amputations will resume in Afghanistan. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, now in charge of prisons, told AP News amputations were" necessary for security".He said these punishments may not be meted out in public, as they were under previous Taliban rule in the 1990s. But he di

Russia has suffered as many as 40, 000 casualties in a month of fighting in Ukraine, a senior Nato

seeking permission to cross into their country, ” a senior administration official told Dawn over the