The statement from Haibatullah Akhunzada was made in a social media post on Friday to commemorate “Victory Day”, four years on from the chaotic United States and NATO withdrawal from the country after ...

The women’s rights advocate says the international community’s failure to use its leverage is making the Taliban bolder.

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. "I think the Taliban have understood how much the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas damaged their ...

Karima Moqimi was a final-year medical student in the 1990s during the Taliban’s first period of rule in Afghanistan. She was pregnant with her first child when she went to her university to ...

Jim Coleman, father of ex-Taliban hostage, was a man of honor: Reporter's Notebook James Gordon Meek honors the man who tirelessly pursued his daughter's release.

Afghanistan is prone to deadly earthquakes, particularly in the Hindu Kush mountain range, where the Indian and Eurasian ...

The Taliban barred women from attending celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan. Some 10,000 men gathered across Kabul on Friday to watch Defense ...

What might feel like an adventurous trip to an underexplored country can turn out to be an unintentional investment in the ...

A secret US summit with the Taliban and Afghanistan's leader, abruptly cancelled by President Donald Trump on Saturday, was not the first time Washington has sought a deal with the Islamists.

Taliban commanders, flush with excess inventory and badly in need of cash from any available source, sell weapons through networks that span Pakistan’s frontiers.

The Taliban barred women from attending celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan. Some 10,000 men gathered across Kabul on Friday to watch Defense ...