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TRT World says Taliban militants in Pakistan declared an end to a month-long ceasefire arranged with the aid of the Afghan Taliban.

Arab News says Taliban authorities said on Thursday that Iranian forces had suffered at least nine casualties during clashes on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

The Independent says The head of the British military has insisted that it is too early to say whether the West was defeated in Afghanistan.

France24 says In the villages that once bore the brunt of Afghanistan’s frontline fighting, the Taliban victory has broken a cycle of air strikes, gun battles and funerals.

France24 says A Taliban military commander was killed when his men responded to an Islamic State suicide bomb and gun attack on a hospital in the Afghan capital.

France24 says since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan at the end of August the persecution of the country’s LGBT+ community has ramped up.

The Independent says The British ambassador to Afghanistan repeatedly warned Dominic Raab that Kabul would swiftly fall into Taliban hands, diplomatic cables have revealed.

TRT World says the Taliban, who regained power in August after the collapse of the US-backed government, will not be allowed to access Afghan central bank reserves.

Aljazeera says Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has suspended flights to Kabul after what it called heavy-handed interference by Taliban authorities.

Arab News says Afghanistan’s girls football team will be allowed to resettle in the UK after fleeing the Taliban to Pakistan where they currently hold temporary visas.