Hassan Abbas, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. and author of the “Return of the Taliban,” said Akhundzada stressed the importance of unity from a religious perspective ...

U.S. citizen George Glezmann has been released by the Taliban after 2½ years in captivity, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement Thursday. Glezmann, an airline mechanic, was detained ...

George Glezmann was detained while traveling in the country after the Taliban’s victory in the war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked Qatar for helping to secure his release. By Edward Wong ...

The United States has lifted a $10m reward for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesperson says.

George Glezmann, an American airline mechanic held by the Taliban since 2022, has been released, the State Department announced Thursday. “George Glezmann is free. George was wrongfully detained ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump ...

An American was freed from Afghanistan on Thursday after more than two years in Taliban captivity in a deal brokered by Qatar. George Glezmann, a Delta Air Lines mechanic, has left Kabul and is ...

A source with the knowledge of the situation said that negotiations had been going on for weeks and that a breakthrough was made by Qatar during a recent meeting with the Taliban. US hostage envoy ...

Zalmay Khalilzad, a former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, confirmed the news on Thursday, announcing that the Taliban government agreed to release Glezmann as a goodwill gesture to President ...

The group has ideological differences with the Afghan Taliban and their supporters, who follow the Deoband school of thought,” said Ihsanullah Tipu, an Islamabad-based security analyst.

In an interview with Afghanistan’s state-run television RTA, released on Sunday, the Taliban government’s chief spokesman responded to recent claims by US President Donald Trump regarding a ...

The Dar-ul-Uloom Haqqania in northwestern Pakistan taught several senior Taliban, including members of the Haqqani network. Six people were killed on Friday in a suicide bombing at a pro-Taliban ...