A miner in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan poured water over a block of jade, exposing the green stone that is part of ...

Given the Taliban’s contacts during their twenty-year insurgency, it should come as little surprise that American weapons are ending up in the hands of the world’s worst rogues’ gallery.

The Taliban are taking over the operations of Afghanistan's only luxury hotel, more than a decade after launching a deadly ...

Cricketer Firooza Amiri says her team will "represent millions of women in Afghanistan who are denied their rights” when the ...

A Taliban ambassador is warning new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio against making threats after he said he would place bounties on Afghanistan’s rulers for their continued detention of U.S. natio ...

Under the Taliban's rule, women were systematically excluded from political, social and educational life. Over 40 million Afghan citizens are facing a critical situation, while the Afghan Taliban have ...

Two Americans have been released from Afghanistan, their families said Tuesday, as the Taliban announced a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry ...

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...

While India has been gradually increasing its engagement with the Taliban, this latest meeting represents the highest-level talks since the Islamic group's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.

I don’t know what the Taliban did with them.” Artists in Afghanistan faced difficulties producing art even outside of the previous Taliban control, but the regime’s return made the risks ...

A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges ...

(Anna Corbett via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in ...