Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

Marco Rubio warned the Taliban of a “VERY BIG bounty” on its leaders if reports of more American hostages are confirmed. A Senate resolution calls for the release of Mahmood Habibi, but the Taliban ...

A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for alleged gender-based crimes, as the group continues to crack down on women’s rights in Afghanistan. The news ...

On the eve of his inauguration, President Trump accused the Biden administration of handing over U.S. military assets to the Taliban following the 2021 withdrawal — a withdrawal that Mr. Trump ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions among the movement's leaders and ...

The country is suffering a humanitarian crisis that will deepen if US aid is halted permanently. And turning the country into ...

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. Sher ...

Instead, the powerful unelected generals who run Pakistan have mostly received a middle finger. In December, 16 Pakistani ...

One of the few officials in Afghanistan ’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to ...

The latest talks on reopening the Afghan embassy follow close on the heels of the meeting between Afghanistan’s acting ...

Without unity, nothing would exist." The remarks come after a Taliban leader spoke out last month against policies denying formal education to girls, while this week Taliban guards fired shots ...