Military commanders secretly practice it, highlighting Taliban rule’s loopholes. A US report confirms Afghan security forces’ involvement, while similar abuse occurs in Pakistan. Victims face ...

Most current Taliban officials aren’t subject to U.S. or U.N. sanctions and those that are routinely are granted waivers to travel – with foreign partners often covering the costs. As part of ...

As director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi has the unenviable task of raising revenue for the government of a wretchedly poor, isolated nation.

A delegation of senior Taliban officials arrived on Feb. 16 for the first visit to Japan by the Islamic group since it effectively recaptured control of Afghanistan in August 2021. The delegation ...

When new rulers with jihadi roots took power in Damascus, artists, singers and dancers held their breath. They can relax, the regime says.

Amidst a growing number of reports that India will accept a Taliban-appointed diplomat to head the Afghanistan Embassy in Delhi, speakers at a conference of prominent Afghan exiles here urged New ...

In recent times, the Taliban’s growing frictions and skirmishes with the Pakistani forces have dominated the news headlines, vindicating the assessments and forecasts of astute Indian intelligence ...

The Taliban issued a message on International Women's Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights protected, even as the U.N. condemned ongoing employment and education bans.

Mr. Ahmad is a counterterrorism research scholar and author of the Taliban Leadership Tracker at the Middle East Institute. President Trump has promised a bold new American approach to the world.

New Delhi: Five years after the Doha agreement paved the way for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban, in a shock move, last week said that they no longer consider the Doha pact ...

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