THE HAGUE, July 9 — The International Criminal Court yesterday issued arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, including supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, accusing them of the persecution of women and girls.

PUTRAJAYA, June 25 — Malaysia and the Kyrgyz Republic have called for greater efforts to acknowledge Afghanistan into the international community.

MOSCOW, April 17 — Russia today suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.

THE HAGUE, Jan 23 — The International Criminal Court prosecutor today said he had applied for arrest warrants for Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, including supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, accusing them of crimes against humanity for widespread discrimination against women and girls.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 12 — Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai today urged Muslim leaders to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s Taliban over its treatment of women and girls.

WASHINGTON, Nov 27 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has agreed to testify publicly at a House of Representatives committee hearing on the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, the panel said yesterday, after a long dispute with the Republican-led committee.

KABUL, Nov 10 — Afghan Taliban officials will attend the major United Nations climate conference COP29 that starts next week, the Afghanistan Foreign Ministry said today, the first time they have attended since the former insurgents took power in 2021.

MANILA, Aug 20 — The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has said that the country has agreed to a request by the United States (US) to temporarily host a US immigrant visa processing centre for "a limited number" of Afghan nationals.

BANGKOK, Dec 12 — Myanmar has become the world's largest source of opium, thanks to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations (UN) said in a report today.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 10 — No Malaysians were reported to be injured or directly affected by the earthquake that hit Herat Province in Afghanistan on October 7.

GENEVA, Oct 9 — More than 11,000 people have been affected by a series of earthquakes in Afghanistan's Herat province on Saturday morning, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), reported dpa news agency.

ISTANBUL, Sept 24 — Indonesia said on Saturday (September 23) that Southeast Asia will not become a 'pawn of rivalries' as it emphasised reinforcing regional cooperation.

NEW YORK, Sept 22 — Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has called for a concerted multilateral effort spearheaded by the United Nations to resolve all the conflicts and humanitarian crises in the world, citing the problems in Ukraine, Palestine, Afghanistan and Myanmar as examples.

KABUL, July 21 — For the last eight years, Marzia Reyazee has supported her family with the earnings from her female-only beauty salon in Afghanistan, a business she spent more than US$18,000 (RM82,107) setting up.

NEW YORK, Dec 28 — The UN Security Council urged the Taliban in Afghanistan to reverse policies and practices Tuesday that further exclude women from public life.

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 27 — Malaysia hopes that Afghanistan would rethink its decision on banning women from universities as it is detrimental to the educational development of Muslims, said Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.

NEW DELHI, Nov 25 — India and Pakistan have expressed hope for further strengthening relations with Malaysia under new Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — An Afghanistan shop assistant was stabbed in the head and shoulder by his fellow countryman in an attempted robbery at a grocery store in Jalan Merdeka Permai 2, Ampang yesterday.

NEW YORK, Dec 2 — A United Nations (UN) committee on Wednesday delayed a decision on who will represent Afghanistan and Myanmar at the 193-member world body.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 — Malaysia needs to draw new approaches to the Taliban government in Kabul, said former Special Envoy to Afghanistan Datuk Seri Zainal Abidin Mahamad Zain.