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The U.S. Treasury Department is taking steps to prevent the Taliban from accessing some $455 million worth of new International Monetary Fund reserves due to be allocated to Afghanistan next week, a Treasury official said on Wednesday.

Facebook may not lift its ban on the Taliban even if the United States stops imposing sanctions on the group, which has rapidly taken control of Afghanistan, the social media company's policy chief said on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister underlined that any recognition of the new government in Afghanistan to happen on an international, not unilateral basis

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says there can be no payments of development assistance until we clarify the situation with Taliban leaders

Lanette Nuel sits listlessly next to her daughter's corpse outside the main hospital of Les Cayes in southwestern Haiti. The 26yearold was crushed by rubble during the earthquake this weekend and died after there were not enough medics to attend her.

The sources told Reuters Turkey was instead ready to provide technical and security assistance if the Taliban requested it.

Pakistan's high-level security huddle chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday endorsed US President Joe Biden's decision to pull American troops out of Afghanistan.

In video footage that could become some of the defining images of the fall of Kabul, Afghans desperate to escape the Taliban takeover clung to the side of a departing U.S. military jet as it rolled down the tarmac Monday. Some of them apparently fell to t...

Colombia has reissued Interpol Red Notices for three leading FARC dissidents, the country's police chief said on Monday, and called on Interpol member countries including Venezuela to arrest and extradite them.

Turkey has dropped plans to take control of Kabul airport after NATO's withdrawal but is ready to provide technical and security support if the Taliban request it, two Turkish security sources said on Monday.

Former Afghan Interior Minister Ali Jalali on Monday said he was never under consideration to become transitional president for Afghanistan and that he would never have accepted the position.

There were desperate scenes at Kabul's airport on Monday as people tried to board the few flights available.

The insurgents mixed threats and lures with propaganda and psychological warfare as they took city after city -- some with barely a shot fired -- eventually capturing the capital Kabul.

Hundreds of Afghans have jammed the airport trying to get out of the country after Taliban insurgents entered the capital on Sunday

Pakistan created the movement called Taliban to exploit the sentiments of normal Afghanis who were being brutally suppressed and killed by different tribal warlords across the country called the Mujahideen fighters or jihadi warriors to push its own inter...

Nicaraguan police on Saturday arrested the general manager of newspaper La Prensa, a day after raiding its offices and accusing the publication, which is a trenchant critic of President Daniel Ortega, of customs fraud and money laundering.