Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have released British couple Peter and Barbie Reynolds, who were held for almost eight months without charge.

Afghanistan's Taliban government released a British couple after holding them without charge since February, after a diplomatic intervention by Qatar officials.

A new push to cut nationwide access to the digital world is taking Afghanistan back to the isolationist extremes of decades past

Donald Trump has said he is negotiating with the Taliban to retake control of Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, a development that would take huge American military resources to sustain and represent a stunning turnaround from the Islamist group.

No information was provided on how many people are being held in each country, who they are or why they were imprisoned.