Prominent Taliban leader Shahabuddin Dilwar, in response to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis statement casting doubt on the sustainability of a new regime in Afghanistan, has said India will soon know that the Taliban can run the countrys affairs smoothly, Pakistan daily Dawn reported. ....

Americans in Afghanistan are being warned to stay away from the Kabul airport due tothreats tied to the Islamic State (IS) terror group. ....

The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) (CPN-UML), the largest political party in the Himalayan nation, has formally split as a faction registered a new party with the Election Commission. ....

Three Punjabi men have been arrested from Brampton city in Canada for using an underage girl in sex trade. ....

A former minister in Afghanistan has now reportedly taken up a job delivering food in Germany. ....

The Taliban leadership is warning the employed women in Afghanistan to stay indoors until it trains its security forces on "how to deal with women". ....

Former Afghanistan Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi has posted shocking pictures of young children reportedly being killed by the Taliban. ....

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that Afghan citizens will not be allowed to leave the country any more by the ongoing US evacuation process, while also warning that Washington should withdraw all troops and contractors before the August 31 deadline and no extension would be possible. ....

The first flight of US-bound Afghans evacuated from the war-torn country has arrived in Kuwait for transit, said Alina L. Romanowski, the American ambassador to the Gulf nation. ....

The ongoing cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed 1,768 people in the country since its onset in January, a top health official said here. ....