After years of rising tensions, Pakistan and the Taliban are now locked in what officials call an “open war.” Border clashes, ...

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued a draconian decree that makes sodomy punishable by death and allows men to beat their wives so long as they don’t break bones or leave visible, lasting ...

KABUL, AfghanistanKABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban fighters watched the last U.S. planes disappear into the sky over Afghanistan around midnight Monday and then fired their guns into the air, celebrating ...

The Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani military skirmished along their joint border overnight after the Taliban launched a “retaliatory operation” for the Pakistani Air Force targeting the head of the ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The United States is hurrying to evacuate as many American citizens and vulnerable Afghans from Taliban control. The Pentagon says its goal is to get up to 9,000 people on ...

For five years of Taliban rule, Mohammad Yaseen lived a life of danger in this city, risking imprisonment or worse while performing subversive activities outlawed by the fundamentalist Islamic regime.

Pakistan launched deadly airstrikes across different provinces of Afghanistan, claiming to have killed hundreds of Taliban ...

On the sidelines of the third round of the U.N.-convened Doha Working Group (commonly known as Doha Process) meetings held in the Qatari capital on June 30 and July 1, Russia’s Special Presidential ...

Taliban Emir Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada (left) and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani (right). The Taliban rejected arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its emir, ...

Among Afghans, there is a saying: “A woman can only be defeated by a woman.” In today’s Afghanistan, this expression takes on a painfully literal meaning. With women and girls barred from schools, ...