Pakistan and Afghanistan claim to have inflicted heavy losses against each other during violent clashes along their porous border.

Fierce overnight clashes reportedly erupt along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

In a rare diplomatic turn, India has hosted the Taliban’s foreign minister in New Delhi.

India and Afghanistan have agreed to upgrade their diplomatic relations.

Holding the 7th meeting of the Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan.

India is set to host the Taliban’s acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, next week after the UN Security Council’s sanctions committee approved a temporary exemption to his long-standing travel ban.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the two-decade US war is behind Afghanistan’s current crises, warning that the return of foreign troops to the country “threatens the region’s peace and security”.

Trump demands the Taliban return Bagram Air Base, citing strategic and intelligence value, but Kabul has rebuffed the threat, raising fears of a costly renewed conflict.

The Taliban say a deal on Bagram airbase is not possible, calling on Trump to adopt a policy of “realism and rationality.”

US President Donald Trump warns Afghanistan’s Taliban to return the Bagram air base to the United States, or bad things are going to happen to them.