The United Nations warns that Afghanistan’s humanitarian situation is 'catastrophic.'

The Chinese ambassador to the United Nations (UN) says the US and its NATO allies should be held accountable for the human rights violations they committed in Afghanistan during the 20-year-long war on the country.

The Taliban have captured Afghanistan’s key eastern city of Jalalabad, leaving the capital, Kabul, the only major city under the government's control.

Afghan government forces and the Taliban are engaged in fierce fighting in three northern provinces as the militants ramp up their offensives to seize further territory.

China offers to host talks between Afghanistan’s rival factions as part of efforts to end the two-decade-long war and a recent surge of violence that has claimed the lives of hundreds in recent weeks across the country.

US President Joe Biden says it is “tough” to withdraw all the US forces in Afghanistan by May 1, a deadline agreed upon by the Trump administration and the Taliban.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has rejected a US-Taliban proposal for the government in Kabul to free more prisoners of the militant group as part of a peace agreement in February,.