At least one American detained in Afghanistan was released amid the U.S. presidential transition, according to his family, in an apparent prisoner exchange with the Taliban. The Taliban had ...

(Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Mahmoud Habibi is another U.S. citizen, who was in Afghanistan for business and captured by the Taliban, according to the Foley Foundation ...

More than three years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country's new leaders insist they have improved people's lives, but for years the Taliban has ruled with an iron fist ...