A motorist rides past a sign board for the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in New Delhi. Mahmood Shah Habibi, a senior official in the previous Nato-backed Afghan regime, was reportedly arrested by the Taliban in German chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to crack down on refugees following a terror attack last week.
Born and raised in Pakistan to parents who fled neighboring Afghanistan half a century ago, an year-old found himself at the mercy of police in Karachi who sent him to a deportation center.
Taliban fighters stand guard as Afghan refugees line up to register in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border. An Afghan burqa-clad woman 2L with a girl L looks for alms along a street amid snowfall in Herat. Armed Taliban security personnel ride a vehicle convoy as they parade near the US embassy in Kabul. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in Please refresh your browser to be logged in.
Iran's foreign minister meets the Taliban in the first visit to Kabul in 8 years. South Asia. Major meeting of Asian security group begins in Pakistan to discuss security and economic ties. Survivors grapple with aid cuts and the Taliban a year after massive Afghan earthquake.
Southeast Asia. Fears for US citizen held by Taliban amid reports of al-Qaeda handover. The Taliban says foreigners in Afghanistan on previous government's visas can stay for now. Pakistan summons Afghan diplomat to protest a suicide attack that killed 8 soldiers in the northwest. Americans being held by Taliban to swap for Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Pakistani troops kill 10 militants responsible for attack on military base that left 8 soldiers dead. Forty dead in heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan; 17 killed in bus accident.
