Nearly eight months after the Taliban’s sweeping takeover of Kabul and botched exit of the US-led allied forces, Afghanistan’s economic prospects remain grim.

The Taliban and its allies have allegedly killed more than 100 former Afghan government members, security personnel and people who worked with the international military contingent in Afghanistan, claims a new UN report.

Pakistan says the US' sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan is a reason behind the chaotic situation in the war-torn country.

A top Swedish diplomat warns Afghanistan is “on the brink of an economic collapse.”

Russia’s President Putin says the US triggered an arms race after its withdrawal from the ABM Treaty two decades ago.

“We clearly told them that trying to destabilize the government in Afghanistan is good for no one,” said the Taliban’s foreign minister.

The Taliban urge international airlines to resume flights to the Afghan capital Kabul, saying all technical issues at the country's main airport have been resolved.

The US surveillance on its citizens is common knowledge yet the way the US government goes about spying and how it uses its surveillance data against the ones it targets is controversial.

US Republican senators have called on Congress to press senior Pentagon officials to testify about Washington’s chaotic withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has been a haunted battlefield for the world’s fiercest armies, from Alexander the Great in the third century BC to Americans in the 21st century.