While the release of Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty is to be celebrated, Americans Mahmood Habibi and George Glezmann remain in Taliban custody.

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.

KABUL, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has ...

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban government announced on Tuesday the release of two Americans in a prisoner exchange. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul did not name the two U.S ...

A senior Taliban official has called for the reversal of the group's controversial ban on education for Afghan women and girls, describing the policy as unjust and un-Islamic. Sher Abbas Stanikzai ...

(Anna Corbett via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump White House is celebrating the release of two Americans freed in a swap with the Taliban brokered by President Joe Biden’s administration. “We ...