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The Taliban's deputy leader and co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar returns to Afghanistan.

Although the Taliban have claimed they will not harm those who worked for foreign forces, many don't believe their assurances of safety.

Lawyers for a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies told a court Monday that there is no evidence she made any misrepresentations that resulted in a bank suffering a loss or put the bank at risk of suffering a loss.

Paris, Aug 16 (AP) President Emmanuel Macron promised on Monday that France would not abandon Afghans who worked for his country from translators to kitchen staff, as well as artists, activists and others under threat from the Taliban. Macron said that...

The U.N. Security on Monday called for an immediate end to violence in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of the country and inclusive talks to form a new Afghan government that includes women.

New York real estate heir Robert Durst testified Monday that he lied for decades about sending police a note directing them to the dead body of his best friend because he feared it implicated him in the killing.

In addition to being the governor of Herat Province and the head of the Taliban army, Baradar also wrote a code of conduct for Taliban fighters in the form of a booklet.

Hundreds of unarmed defence personnel joined thousands of extra police to set up roadblocks and enforce COVID19 lockdown rules in parts of Sydney on Monday, while dozens of new venues were added to a list of exposure sites in Melbourne.

A man who was stabbed when a Los Angeles protest against vaccine mandates turned violent has been released from the hospital, police said Sunday.

The spokesman for the Taliban's political office told AlJazeera Mubasher TV on Sunday that the war is over in Afghanistan and that the type of rule and the form of regime will be clear soon.

The powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on Saturday killed hundreds and injured thousands more. The destruction comes just 11 years after a temblor killed tens of thousands of people, if not hundreds of thousands. Some 100,000 buildings were destroyed in t...

President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials were stunned on Sunday by the pace of the Taliban's nearly complete takeover of Afghanistan, as the planned withdrawal of American forces urgently became a mission to ensure a safe evacuation.

Taliban insurgents entered Kabul on Sunday and President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan, saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a U.S.led invasion.

Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada had also reiterated earlier of the group’s plans to have 'positive bilateral relations' with regional countries.

The swift offensive has resulted in mass surrenders, captured helicopters and millions of dollars of US-supplied equipment paraded by the Taliban on grainy cellphone videos.

Mexicos president has assigned the army so many roles, from building airports to transporting coronavirus vaccines, that the government announced a new command structure Friday to handle strictly military matters.