The Taliban administration on Wednesday announced an internet ban across a swathe of northern Afghanistan, “to prevent immoral activities,” provincial government statements said.

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.

The Taliban says it will not entertain any efforts by the United States to reclaim its air base that was abandoned during the fall of Afghanistan. Responding to President Donald Trump’s assertion on Thursday that the U.