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The US government is planning to use $7bn (£5.16bn) in frozen Afghan assets to compensate victims of the 9/11 attacks and for relief efforts.  

The Taliban have pleaded with the US and the West to show ‘mercy and compassion’ by releasing $10billion in funds frozen when the group seized Afghanistan.

Killers said they were Taliban but government denies responsibility and says two of them have been arrested Gunmen presenting themselves as Taliban attacked a wedding in eastern Afghanistan to stop music being played and killed at least three people, the government has said.

The United States has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster but refused to give political recognition to the country’s new rulers, the Taliban said on Sunday.

Horrifying new images from Afghanistan show the bodies of three alleged criminals being hung from diggers by the Taliban.

A bomb has exploded in the entrance of a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, leaving a “number of civilians dead”, according to the Taliban.

The Taliban said on Tuesday they will temporarily adopt a 1964 constitution that granted women the right to vote but eliminate any elements they disagree with.

The Taliban are said to have hung the dead bodies of four alleged kidnappers in public in the western city of Herat in an apparent warning.

Afghan Capital Kabul rocked by another explosion

'Suicide bomb' kills 13 at Kabul airport: TWO explosions and gunfire rip through crowds, causing multiple casualties including children - with three US soldiers among the wounded