Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian ... well-being of Afghan women is (the lack of) education.” The Taliban takeover in August 2021 drove millions into poverty and hunger after ...

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. "I think the Taliban have understood how much the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas damaged their ...

The Taliban leader said executions were part of Islam, days after four men were killed by gunfire in Afghanistan after they were convicted of murder. The Taliban in Afghanistan executed four ...

The Taliban leader said executions were part of Islam, days after four men were killed by gunfire in Afghanistan after they were convicted of murder. The executions took place in sports stadiums ...

An American woman has been freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan after she, two Britons and their Afghan translator were detained earlier this year, Washington’s former envoy to Kabul, Zalmay ...

Russia's Supreme Court has removed the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations, a designation in place since 2003. This decision follows increasing diplomatic engagement between Moscow ...

With Russia's Supreme Court removing a ban on the Taliban on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin has flipped 20 years of the Islamic fundamentalist group's standing with his country. The move isn't ...

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Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, recently said there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect. “There is no need for ...

Russia on Thursday removed the Taliban's label as a "terrorist organisation" in a symbolic gesture aimed at building friendly ties with Afghanistan's rulers. The decision does not amount to ...

The Taliban released an American citizen, Faye Hall, who was detained in Afghanistan, a former U.S. ambassador said Saturday. Hall “is now in the care of our friends, the Qataris in Kabul ...

(Bloomberg) -- Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar is in Afghanistan for a day-long visit to hold talks with the country’s Taliban leaders amid a recent deterioration in ties.