Ali M Latifi

Cryp­to en­thu­si­asts say it’s the only so­lu­tion to the cash crunch that was cre­at­ed when the Tal­iban took over.

Warn­ing by Haibat­ul­lah Akhun­za­da comes as the move­ment faces in­creased at­tacks from hard­line groups.

New regime forces ex­o­dus of jour­nal­ists from Afghanistan where free press was one of few gains of West­ern oc­cu­pa­tion.

Mil­lions of girls con­fined to their homes as Tal­iban con­tin­ues to pre­vent high school girls from re­turn­ing to class­room.

At least 11 mem­bers of the for­mer gov­ern­ment forces were killed in Daykun­di, Amnesty says.

Ziar Khan Yaad from TOLO TV was at­tacked by ap­par­ent Tal­iban mem­bers, rais­ing ques­tions over me­dia free­doms.

Peo­ple stand in long queues to with­draw mon­ey af­ter some banks re­opened in the Afghan cap­i­tal.

Busi­ness­es in Kab­ul strug­gle to at­tract cus­tomers as thou­sands seek way out of the coun­try fol­low­ing Tal­iban takeover.

Haqqani tells Al Jazeera that Afghans should not fear Tal­iban, but many re­main scep­ti­cal their safe­ty will be as­sured.

Eid al-Adha falls at a pre­car­i­ous time as for­eign forces leave, peace talks floun­der and Tal­iban makes sweep­ing gains.