The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan congratulated Afghanistan on the occasion of Independence Day.

The two men, detained in the western city of Herat on August 9, were released on Thursday morning.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is a man of many accolades, including two Oscars and a Golden Bear, but the filmmaker has also managed one thing very few others have: achieving great box-office succes

ICC judges reportedly ordered prosecutors to open a standalone investigation into Taliban persecution of women, separating it from the probe that also covered alleged US crimes in Afghanistan. Afghan

The International Labour Organization estimates that only 5.1% of workers in Afghanistan are women, five years after the Taliban's return to power. That's less than a third of the proportion in 2019 a

The cause of the blast and the number of casualties have not been confirmed, with the Taliban government yet to comment.

Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the former US embassy, with flowers thrown down from military helicopters. Critics of the Taliban, however, fear worsening human rights abuses.