The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the U.S. after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s prime minister has offered talks to Afghanistan’s Taliban government in a renewed peace overture.

Qatar says Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government says Pakistan carried out two drone strikes on Kabul the day before.

Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations, in response to what it called repeated violations of its territory and airspace.

India is upgrading its technical mission in Kabul to a full embassy, according to India's foreign minister.

Russia has hosted a delegation of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government and warned against any foreign military presence in the country.

The Taliban government has rejected reports of a nationwide internet ban in Afghanistan, saying old fiber optic cables are worn out and being replaced.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan is urging the Taliban government to immediately restore nationwide internet and telecommunications access.

The Taliban have freed a U.S. citizen from an Afghan prison.

A British couple held in Afghanistan for more than seven months on undisclosed charges have arrived back in the U.K. after being released by the Taliban.

The Taliban have released a British couple held in Afghanistan for over seven months on undisclosed charges.

A Taliban crackdown to “prevent immorality” is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fiber-optic internet after the country’s leader imposed a complete ban on the technology.

The Taliban says that they've reached agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and Afghanistan.

A Taliban government spokesman says the death toll from a major earthquake in Afghanistan has risen to 2,205.

Aid agencies say the international community must increase funding to Afghanistan.

The Taliban say a major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has killed over 1,400 people and injured more than 3,000.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have celebrated the fourth anniversary of their return to power.

The Taliban say helicopters will shower Kabul with flowers to celebrate the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan.

A U.N. report says dozens of its female Afghan staff have received death threats related to their work.

The independent U_N_ investigator on human rights in Afghanistan says its Taliban rulers have “weaponized” the legal and judicial system to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity."

A UN report says the Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their identity or personal history.

For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the Taliban's arrest of women and girls for alleged failure to comply with the authorities’ dress code.

British media reports say a major data leak has exposed the identities of U.K. spies and special forces.

The current and previous British governments are facing criticism over a secret program that resettled thousands of Afghans in the U.K. after the Taliban's return to power in 2021.

Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in the U.K. after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that the Taliban could target them.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders.

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse their worsening oppression of women and girls and eliminate all terrorist organizations.

Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021, after Moscow removed the group from its list of outlawed organizations.

Group and solo travelers are trickling into Afghanistan by plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles.

Mohammad Sharafoddin, his wife and young son managed to make it out of Afghanistan as refugees nine years ago, at one point walking 36 hours over mountain passes.

The top Taliban leader has slammed President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Afghans, calling the United States an “oppressor.”.

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, among the numerous immigration-related executive orders he signed was one suspending the country’s refugee program.

Russia’s Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban, who were designated as a terrorist group more than two decades ago.

The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan.

Pakistan says it plans to expel 3 million Afghans this year.

An American woman who was detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released.

The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government.

An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban.

A leading rights group says that Pakistan's authorities have intensified pressure on Afghan refugees to go back to neighboring Afghanistan where they risk persecution by the Taliban and face dire economic conditions.

Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days.

A Pakistani official says residents have fled a border area with Afghanistan after forces from both sides clashed into the early hours of the morning.

The Taliban say an Afghan women’s radio station will resume broadcasts after its operations were suspended over alleged cooperation with an overseas TV channel.

Thousands of Afghan refugees who worked alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan and underwent a yearslong vetting process to enter the United States are in limbo.

Turkey has terminated the mission of diplomats appointed by Afghanistan's former pro-Western government.

The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan's only luxury hotel, more than a decade after launching a deadly assault on it.

An Afghan women's group is welcoming the decision by the International Criminal Court to arrest Taliban leaders for their persecution of women.

Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power have appealed to President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops.

A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban has freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges.

A senior Taliban figure says the group's leader should scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls.

President Joe Biden has spoken with relatives of three Americans the U.S. government is looking to bring home from Afghanistan, but no agreement has been reached on a deal to get them back.

A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital has killed the Taliban refugee minister and two others in the most brazen attack on a member of the Taliban inner circle since they returned to power three years ago.

The lower house of Russia's parliament has given initial approval to a long-discussed bill that would clear the way for Moscow to remove the Taliban’s designation as a terrorist group.

The State Department says it isn't actively reviewing the “foreign terrorist organization” designation of the main Syrian rebel group that overthrew of President Bashar Assad’s government this weekend.

The European Union has condemned the Taliban for violating human rights and women’s access to education after media reports that the Taliban’s leader has ordered private and public institutions to stop providing medical courses for women and girls in Afghanistan.

An Afghan official says the Taliban will attend a UN climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.

A Taliban government minister says Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women.

A Taliban official says official media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws.

House Republicans have voted to condemn President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The U.N. says the Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan.

The Taliban say gunmen have killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has presented Congress’ highest honor — the Congressional Gold Medal — to 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

House Republicans have released a scathing report on their investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Taliban has rejected concerns and criticism from the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws which include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public.

A top UN official is warning that the Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws provide a distressing vision for Afghanistan’s future.

The Taliban say it's mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and bare faces in public.

The Taliban have deliberately deprived at least 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans.

The Taliban are celebrating their third year as rulers of Afghanistan at a former U.S. air base.

Taekwondo Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi says she is competing in the name of women in Afghanistan who have gradually been stripped of their rights over the past three years.

Taliban officials say heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan have killed at least 40 people and injured nearly 350 others.

The Taliban’s morality police are contributing to a climate of fear and intimidation among Afghans.

The Taliban is saying the West should look past their harsh edicts on Afghan women and girls to improve relations.

The U.N. political chief who will chair the first meeting between Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and envoys from about 25 countries says women's rights will be raised at every session.

Thousands of jubilant Afghans are celebrating their country’s most iconic sporting moment after their men's national cricket team reached the Twenty20 World Cup semifinals for the first time.

A thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools.

A Taliban official said that at least 20 people were killed as a river ferry sank in eastern Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's Taliban have confirmed the resumption of Turkish Airlines flights to Kabul’s international airport.

Taliban officials say flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports.

Police say suspected militants have bombed a girl's school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying the structure.

The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan.

A Taliban official says that flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan have killed at least 50 people.

The Taliban are warning journalists and experts against working with Afghanistan International TV.

Experts say messages by two influential Taliban leaders in Afghanistan this week showed tensions between hardliners and more moderate elements who want to scrap harsher policies and attract more outside support.

The school year in Afghanistan has started but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education.

The former top military chief Gen. Mark Milley and former head of U.S. Central Command testified before Congress Tuesday on policy failures by the Biden administration to adequately plan for or direct an evacuation in time to avoid the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The United Nations chief says legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality has become an uphill struggle against rank discrimination and gross human human rights abuses.

More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and women’s right to work and move freely.

The Taliban have publicly executed a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium.

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have carried out a double public execution at a stadium in the southeast of the country.

The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says women are scared to leave the home alone because of Taliban rules on clothing and male guardians.

Human Rights Watch says Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, It says this is jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans.

In a story published January 22, 2024, about a U.N. report on restrictions imposed on women in Taliban-run Afghanistan, The Associated Press erroneously reported a quote by U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

A Pakistani political party says its chief met the Taliban supreme leader in Afghanistan.

A Taliban official says a minibus has exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others.

A senior Taliban official says security forces in Afghanistan killed a number of Tajik and Pakistani nationals and arrested scores others involved in attacks against religious clerics, the public, and mosques in Afghanistan.

Afghan schoolgirls are weeping as they finish sixth grade, knowing their education is over.

A U.N. report says Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence.

Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of world’s biggest opium producer.

A rights group says the Taliban’s education policies are harming boys as well as girls in Afghanistan.