Gabrielle Reyes

Ethnic Uyghurs from China's Western Xinjiang region currently residing in Afghanistan told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday they fear the Taliban terror group may deport them to China now that the group has seized control of the country.

Russia will not attempt a military intervention in Afghanistan, as the country has "learned the lesson" from its previous failed attempts to invade it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

Afghan Sikhs and Hindus attempting to flee Kabul following the Taliban's recent takeover of the city are turning down offers to evacuate to India in favor of waiting for unguaranteed opportunities to fly to the U.S.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday urged the international community to delay rollouts of Chinese coronavirus booster shots in an effort to save the global vaccine supply for poorer nations.

Shanghai government officials locked down at least 6,000 residents over the weekend to contain the city's latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak, Shanghai Daily's online news platform, SHINE, reported Sunday.

Gauging the legitimacy of Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers based on their women's rightspolicy is "impulsive and irrational," Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of China's state-run Global Times, argued in an op-ed published Monday.

Members of the Taliban terror group posed for photos and selfies at Paghman Hill Castle, a scenic tourist site located northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, in a video published by the South China Morning Post on Sunday.

The presence of U.S. military personnel at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport is "the main cause behind the ongoing misery" at the airport, the Taliban claimed in statements published by Afghanistan's Khaama Press on Monday.

China is "the real winner" of the foreign policy "disaster" currently unfolding in Afghanistan after the Taliban terror group seized full control of the country earlier this week, China's state-run Global Times argued on Thursday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday encouraged world leaders to help foment the Taliban's "early political transition" in Afghanistan instead of "exerting excessive pressure" on the terror group, which seized control of the Afghan national capital, Kabul, this week.

The Taliban released a propaganda video this week that allegedly depicts a commando unit of the terror group, seemingly equipped with high-tech arms, patrolling “sensitive areas” of Kabul, including the Afghan Presidential Palace, the Telegraph reported Thursday.

Three former Afghan government and security officials from Laghman and Ghazni provinces have gone missing after the Taliban terror group arrested them Sunday, relatives of the men told Tolo News on Friday.

China and Tajikistan completed a two-day joint military drill in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on Thursday designed to test the two nations' anti-terrorism preparedness along their respective land borders with Afghanistan, the state-run China Daily reported.

Police ineast-central China's Hunan province said Wednesday they were investigating a 60-year-old woman for assaulting a government worker after he asked her to present a Chinese coronavirus "vaccine passport" before entering a building this week.

Al-Qaeda in Yemen congratulated the Taliban terror group on Wednesday for its successful takeover of Afghanistan this week, vowing to continue its own jihadon the Arabian Peninsula.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari warned this week that Africa is fast becoming the world's new epicenter of Islamic terrorism, Voice of America (VOA) reported Tuesday.

Photos published by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Wednesday show schoolgirls in the Afghan city of Herat returning to school this week wearing sanitary masks in lieu of the niqab, a full-face covering the Taliban traditionally required women and girls to wear in public under sharia, or Islamic

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Thousands of Afghans, including recently freed Taliban prisoners,entered Pakistan this week through a border crossing located between the Afghan city of Spin Boldak and the Pakistani city of Chaman, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday.

Left-wing billionaire George Soros once again warned that Chinese leader Xi Jinping is "the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world" in an op-ed published Friday by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The Taliban terror group's defeat of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan on Sunday should restore "peace" to the country, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said in a statement released Monday.