Pakistan’s ISI has a long history of maintaining clandestine and not-so-clandestine ties with various Afghan political groups ...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai created a flutter by calling on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools to girls during a ...

the country's new leaders insist they have improved people's lives, but for years the Taliban has ruled with an iron fist — aided by abandoned U.S. military hardware. Last year, the Taliban put ...

The government is trying other negotiating tactics. Since September 2023 some 815,000 Afghans have been evicted from Pakistan ...

The US military has announced the death of a senior operative of Al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din (HaD) after US Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted air strikes ...

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 ...

TIRANA, Albania — They helped the U.S. military order airstrikes against Taliban and Islamic State fighters and worked as drivers and translators during America’s longest war. They were set to start ...

Abdul Haq al Turkistani currently operates from Kabul while directing his fighters in Syria. Haq's presence in Afghanistan ...

On the eve of his inauguration, President Trump accused the Biden administration of handing over U.S. military assets to the Taliban following the 2021 withdrawal — a withdrawal that Mr. Trump ...

Trump’s remarks at a Sunday rally in Washington on the eve of his January 20 inauguration have heightened uncertainty regarding his administration’s stance on the crisis-hit South Asian nation ...

Afghan Hashmatullah Alam, 40, who worked with U.S. Army, poses at a beach in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. Afghan Mohammad Inbrahim, 35, who ...