A huge explosion targets the entrance to a military airfield in the Afghan capital of Kabul, with reports saying the blast left an unspecified number of people dead or wounded.

The UN and its partners have reaffirmed their commitment to delivering aid and services to Afghanistan despite the de-facto Taliban government's decision barring women from working in humanitarian NGOs

The United Nations (UN) has temporarily suspended some “time-critical” programs in Afghanistan after Taliban banned women from working for non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai has blamed the United States for the fate of the war-ravaged country, saying the protracted war “was not our war" but used by the US and its allies against the people of Afghanistan.

Taliban officials have announced a nationwide ban on university education for women in Afghanistan, sparking international condemnation and outcry.

A number of international NGOs suspend their activities in Afghanistan after the Taliban ban female employees.

The UN censures the Taliban's decision to impose an indefinite ban on female staff working for NGOs in Afghanistan.

A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Pakistan on Friday killed at least one policeman and two suspected militants while injuring several others, according to the police and the interior ministry.

The de-facto Taliban government's education minister Nida Mohammad Nadim has defended the decision to impose an indefinite ban on university education for women in Afghanistan despite the international outcry.

The Taliban officials order a nationwide ban on university education for Afghan women. Earlier, a letter, made public by the spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Ziaullah Hashmi, outlining that the measure would take effect immediately in private and public universities.