Haji Najibullah’s plea was heard in a civilian court in Manhattan. He helped abduct David Rohde, then a New York Times ...

A realignment inside the Taliban, an unspoken preference for U.S. partnership and a recognition that isolation is a dead end ...

The first time a young Christian from Afghanistan heard music at a church service where he understood at least some of the ...

The Taliban's supreme leader said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place. Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking ...

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada stated that Afghanistan no longer requires Western laws. He expressed strong disapproval of the West, arguing that democracy has come to an end in Afghanistan.

This isn’t surprising; three of the world’s ten deadliest terrorist groups — Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISK), and the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA ...

Russia, which has long included the Taliban on a list of banned terrorist organisations, has been gradually building ties with the movement. President Vladimir Putin said in July last year that ...

An American woman who had been held in Afghanistan by the Taliban for a month has been released, officials say. Faye Hall was captured in February and accused of using a drone without ...

An American woman was freed by the Taliban after she, two British nationals and their Afghan translator were detained in Afghanistan earlier this year, according to a source with knowledge of the ...

The decision follows a visit by US hostage envoy Adam Boehler to Afghanistan last week. This was the first visit by a high-ranking American diplomat to Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to ...