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 one ...

Japanese officials say senior Afghan Taliban officials are in Japan for talks, as part of Tokyo's efforts to help Afghanistan ...

WHO WERE THE MEN RELEASED? According to the DOJ website, Mohammad was a member of the Afghan Taliban who had been sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts at the age of 38 in the first ever ...

Taliban, in Pashto, is the plural of Talib, which means student. Most members are Pashtun, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada has been the Taliban’s supreme ...

A report submitted to the United Nations Security Council by the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team has corroborated Pakistan's repeated stance on Afghan soil being used ...

As one of its last acts in office, the Biden administration struck a deal to free two Americans held in Afghanistan in exchange for one Taliban member held in a U.S. prison. The Taliban released ...

the Taliban agreed to swap Ryan Corbett and William McKenty for one Taliban member serving a life sentence in the U.S. Corbett's family says he had been a prisoner for 894 days. He was living in ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

The department called Mohammed a “violent jihadist” and said he was a member of the Taliban who tried to kill US soldiers with rockets. In secretly recorded conversations with an informant ...

Released Afghan was a member of Taliban found guilty of narco-terrorism charges: U.S. DOJ records Ryan Corbett, NGO worker, detained in Afghanistan in 2022, among released Americans: family ...

Afghan Taliban Member Freed From US Custody in Exchange for Two Americans, Kabul Says KABUL (Reuters) -The United States has freed an Afghan convicted by an American court on charges of drug ...