The government accused the Islamic State of being behind the attack, which struck at the heart of the Taliban’s power structure after years of essentially unchallenged dominance. By Lynsey ...

The minister for refugees in Afghanistan's Taliban government was killed in an explosion Wednesday at the ministry's headquarters in the capital Kabul, multiple senior officials with Taliban ...

The recent assassination of a Taliban minister in Afghanistan by a local Islamic State offshoot has raised concerns about the terrorist network's expansion in the region, while signifying an ...

The Taliban have banned windows that look onto areas where Afghan women could be seen inside their homes. "Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead ...

A bomb blast Wednesday in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed the Taliban’s minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil-Ur-Rahman Haqqani, and at least four associates. Taliban sources said that the ...

Pakistani leaders were once friends of the Taliban in Afghanistan ... leaving civilians to suffer,” Mr. Mehsud added. A Hit Man’s Last Confession: Edgar Matobato says he killed again and ...

Taliban's acting refugee minister, Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani, and four others were killed in a Kabul suicide bombing on Wednesday. A suicide bomber, disguised as a visitor, detonated the bomb ...

as well as moderate members of the Taliban, who are growing increasingly disillusioned with Akhundzada’s one-man rule. Former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh, a prominent voice of ...

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women ...

The Taliban have banned windows in residential buildings to stop women from being seen while they are at home in Afghanistan. Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, ordered that ...

Taliban officials claimed the "Islamic State" terror group carried out an attack in Kabul, killing acting minister for refugees Khalil Ur Rahman Haqqani. He was a ...

Afghan Taliban forces targeted “several points” in neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s defense ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardment inside ...