Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan's halls of power, some Taliban members have also swapped their weapons for pens to tell their version of the 20-year conflict with Western forces, who ...

A man who was once convicted in the United States of supporting al-Qaida has been charged in Canada after allegedly threatening an attack.

The latest Pakistani air strikes inside Afghanistan have rekindled tensions between Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and Islamabad, who were once former allies. While Pakistan has said it was ...

The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country ...

Many countries have not formally recognized the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan, and the United Nations calls Afghanistan under the Taliban the most repressive country in the world for wo ...

One of the Taliban's first acts after seizing power in 2021 was to rename the country the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Since then, the militant Islamist group has changed the names of scores of ...

Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the Taliban’s capture of Kabul, an event as painful to Afghanistan veterans as the fall of Saigon was to Americans who fought during the Vietnam War.

The Taliban are a predominantly Pashtun, Islamic fundamentalist group that returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021 after waging a twenty-year insurgency. Following the U.S.-led invasion that ...

On Aug. 15, 2021, two weeks before U.S. troops were set to finish their withdrawal from Afghanistan following nearly two decades of war, the Taliban swept into power in Afghanistan’s capital ...

Within a year of beginning their second stint in control of Afghanistan, the Taliban have systematically caused and entrenched an egregious regression of civil liberties and human rights ...

(New York) – Taliban security forces have summarily executed and forcibly disappeared alleged members and supporters of an Islamic State offshoot in eastern Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said ...

The 43-page report, “‘Even If You Go to the Skies, We’ll Find You’: LGBT People in Afghanistan After the Taliban Takeover,” is based on 60 interviews with LGBT Afghans. Many reported ...