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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pakistani leaders were once friends of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now, cross-border violence has become alarmingly frequent. By Zia ur-Rehman Reporting from Karachi, Pakistan Airstrikes by ...

Haqqani, pictured in Kabul last month - the US had offered a $5m reward for information leading to his arrest [EPA] Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani has been killed in a suicide bombing ...

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 ...

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’s refugee minister was killed in a suicide bombing carried out by ISIS in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, according to officials. Khalil Haqqani is the uncle of current ...

Young women living under oppressive Taliban rule in Afghanistan have dared to share their hopes and fears for 2025, which range from an end to "gender apartheid", to simply going for a walk in the ...