Joseph Borrell: The European Union has no choice but to negotiate with the Taliban

Wahidullah Hashemi, a senior Taliban official, told Reuters that Afghan women should not be allowed to side with men.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken tweeted about the US decision to provide $ 64 million in humanitarian aid to the Afghan people. Blinken stressed that the United States will use all diplomatic and economic means to support a stable future in Afghanistan.

Anthony Blinken told members of the House of Representatives that, given Pakistan's actions over the past 20 years, the United States intends to address its relationship with Pakistan in the next few weeks and its expectations for its future role in international cooperation and counterterrorism. Check

Reuters quoted an informed source from the Gulf Arab states as saying that after the US withdrew from Afghanistan and the possibility of the country becoming a new base for al-Qaeda terrorists, US Arab allies were skeptical about continuing to rely on US security support.

April Hines, director of national intelligence, said in a speech that Afghanistan was not currently at the top of the list of terrorist threats to US internal security, but that "the threat posed by ISIS in Yemen, Somalia, Syria and Iraq is the greatest threat." »