The Taliban leader once warned of a split: A BBC investigation reveals how attitudes to women, the internet and religion are ...

A suicide attack that killed the Taliban minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, in December 2024, ...

Afghanistan's Taliban are closing ranks around their new leader after months of infighting that followed the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, which could allow the insurgents to speak with one voice in ...

According to recent media reports, Hibatullah Akhundzada’s Kandahar-based leadership views China as a key economic and ...

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

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Four years into its second stretch in power, Afghanistan’s Taliban government has been recognized by only one country: Russia. But anti-immigrant sentiment, concerns about ...

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

For two decades, Bagram Airfield was the nerve center of the U.S.-led counterterrorism campaign across Afghanistan and the main hub for Special Operations troops. August 2021 But as U.S. forces were ...