Aghanistan is a country most of us would rather forget. I learnt that the hard way a couple of years ago when I returned there and suggested that the West should re-engage with the Taliban. Few wanted ...

Last year was actually one of increased isolation, regional tensions, and strategic failure.

Kabul – A speech attributed to Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has laid bare internal differences within ...

Report claims Hibatullah Akhundzada ‘spooked’ by possibility of schism between his hardline base in south, more pragmatic ...

Interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has weirdly become the unlikely champion of what passes for ‘reform,’ if such a word can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly four years after the Taliban’s reconquest of Afghanistan, Moscow has formally recognized the Taliban regime as the ...

The Taliban and Afghanistan’s neighbors are not able to stabilize the country. Only US influence can provide the right carrots and sticks.

The ongoing protests in Iran have the Taliban in Afghanistan worried. In Iran’s streets, the Taliban see the seeds of their ...

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has repeatedly warned that it is not external, but rather the threat of internal divisions, that pose the gravest threat to the survival of the Islamic Emirate, ...

Taliban fighters stand guard on Nadir Khan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) — The International Criminal Court on Tuesday ...

The Taliban have appointed a co-founder of the movement as the new head of their political office in Doha, where talks have been held since Monday with US officials seeking to end 17 years of conflict ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s ...