When the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s, the governments of the Central Asian states, with the exception of Turkmenistan, were openly hostile to the Afghan militant ...

Four years after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the threat posed by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has ...

Japanese officials say senior Taliban figures are in the capital for talks, as part of Tokyo’s efforts to help Afghanistan build a more inclusive political system and protect human rights ...

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

The fast-paced equestrian game of buzkashi is a welcome distraction in rural Afghanistan, blighted by drought and poverty, ...

The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on ...

Islamabad, Pakistan — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime saw two Americans freed in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California ...

Turkmenistan’s Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov has arrived in Kabul along with a delegation to hold talks with Taliban officials on a number of issues, including Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan reportedly have agreed to allow female students to pursue higher education in Pakistan, provided that their male guardians also are granted visas to accompany ...