When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, there was optimism that the Taliban 2.0 would be different from their first term. When the Taliban government was overthrown by the US ...

Under the influence of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the country appears to be slipping toward a Taliban-like rule. Forget about Hindus—now even Muslim women are facing severe restrictions.

Afghanistan, now under the Taliban, is no longer a conflict begging to be solved with a deal. It needs a more nuanced approach than the Trump administration may be capable of. As U.S. President ...

Despite the international “whitewashing” of Taliban 2.0, he knew the organisation was “not capable of being changed”. “We knew that when the Taliban came, our days would be over,” he said. In a ...

In the final hours of his term, President Joe Biden negotiated a prisoner exchange with the Taliban that released U.S. citizens Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty from Taliban custody.

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 California on drug trafficking ...

Authorities say militants in northwestern Pakistan have killed two people when they ambushed a convoy of trucks carrying food and medicine for thousands of residents trapped by sectarian violence ...

A prisoner swap between the US and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for Khan Mohammed, a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism ...

there was optimism that the Taliban 2.0 would be different from their first term. When the Taliban government was overthrown by the US-led coalition after the 9/11 attacks, Afghanistan was known ...