The Taliban leader says executions are part of Islam. That's after rights groups and the U.N. condemned the public executions of four men days earlier after they were convicted of murder.

Faye Hall is one of four Americans known to have been released by the Taliban this year. She called on President Trump to ...

After years of fighting, Afghanistan's women's cricket team has now won support from the sport's governing body. One of the exiled players told DW this marks a significant leap in a long, grueling ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Rifts are growing among Taliban officials over the group's decision to ban girls from secondary education, leading at least one minister to leave Afghanistan and forcing ...

An American woman detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released from custody, according to a person ...

The leadership and decision-makers of the Taliban originate from a remote and underprivileged tribal background in ...

The Taliban leader said Sunday there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect.

Sophisticated American military equipment left behind during the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan is increasingly being used by militants in Pakistan, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), ...

An American was freed from Afghanistan on Thursday after more than two years in Taliban captivity in a deal brokered by Qatar. George Glezmann, a Delta Air Lines mechanic, has left Kabul and is ...

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education, bringing ...

Law and order is central to the severe ideology of the Taliban, which emerged from the chaos of a civil war following the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989. One of the most ...

Karzai’s influence is not just historical; it lies in his ability to mediate Afghanistan’s current power struggles.