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 ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened the heads of the Taliban with a “very big bounty” after hearing that more American hostages are being held by the group. “Just hearing the Taliban ...

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

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

The warning came after Rubio suggested the U.S. would consider offering large rewards for the Taliban's top figures in response to the continued detention of American nationals in Afghanistan.

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 ...

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

The Taliban's Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, hosted a delegation in Kabul on Sunday led by Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi to discuss multiple issues, including water ...

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 ...