The Taliban confirmed the death of Australian Timothy Weeks, who had converted to Islam and taken the name Jibra'il Omar. After being released from captivity in 2019, Omar returned to Kabul and ...

The Taliban confirmed the death of Australian Timothy Weeks, who had converted to Islam and taken the name Jibra'il Omar.

New research shows that Afghan women earned 13% more for every additional year of schooling they received after the Taliban ...

The Pakistan-Taliban 'war', witnessed a severe escalation as Afghan Taliban fighters attacked the Pakistani Army in Kurram ...

After the war, the Taliban cleared Afghanistan of poppy and other illicit drugs. But with poppy now banned, the farmers who ...

Women in Afghanistan face restrictions that men do not. But the global debate around the hijab and Muslim women’s rights is ...

UNESCO-listed rubab faces extinction in Afghanistan as the Taliban bans music. Craftsmen and musicians fight to keep this ...

The Afghan Taliban condemned the attack as a violation of international principles and vowed retaliation. Pakistan claimed the airstrikes targeted a Pakistani Taliban (TTP) camp, blaming them for ...

The discussions in January 2026 would consider the proposed definition of gender apartheid as “inhumane acts committed within the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic discrimination, ...

The new law, passed by parliament's lower house, the State Duma, paved the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the Afghan Taliban and potentially with the new leadership of Syria. It outlines a ...

The Taliban grew with it. That same year, they finally claimed the district center in Bakwa, the last remaining symbol of the Afghan government. The squat concrete building had been constructed ...

For the Taliban, this moment is bittersweet. While the collapse of a rival regime offers a symbolic victory, the rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) poses a direct ideological and strategic challenge.