In a recent prisoner exchange, the Taliban released two Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, in return for Khan ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions among the movement's leaders and ...

The country is suffering a humanitarian crisis that will deepen if US aid is halted permanently. And turning the country into ...

The latest talks on reopening the Afghan embassy follow close on the heels of the meeting between Afghanistan’s acting ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher ...

One of the few officials in Afghanistan ’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for alleged gender-based crimes, as the group continues to crack down on women’s rights in Afghanistan. The news ...

An arrest warrant was issued against deputy foreign minister Abbas Stanikzai, say local reports. However, Stanikzai maintains ...

On the eve of his inauguration, President Trump accused the Biden administration of handing over U.S. military assets to the Taliban following the 2021 withdrawal — a withdrawal that Mr. Trump ...

A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled ...

Yousafzai spoke at the closing session of a Pakistan-hosted international summit on girls’ education in Muslim communities around the world, sharply criticizing the hardline Taliban government ...

In September 2022, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai created a flutter by calling on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools to girls during a televised speech. The Taliban’s acting deputy foreign ...