Engaging directly with the Taliban may be the only way to protect Americans from the jihadist threat that stirs once again in ...

Composed by a young Afghan poet Ramin Mazhar, the song 'I will kiss you amid Taliban, you are not afraid' was sung by Ghawgha Taban on the eve of Valentine's Day. The video immediately went viral ...

Mr. Ahmad is a counterterrorism research scholar and author of the Taliban Leadership Tracker at the Middle East Institute. President Trump has promised a bold new American approach to the world.

Japan urged the Taliban government to respect human rights during a rare diplomatic meeting with a senior member of the visiting Afghan delegation, Tokyo said on Wednesday. "Several" high-ranking ...

Television, music and non-Islamic holidays are banned. 1997 – The Taliban issue an edict renaming Afghanistan the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The country is only officially recognized by ...

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A Taliban government delegation was visiting Japan for the first time on Monday (February 17, 2025), in a rare diplomatic visit outside of the region. The Afghan delegation left Kabul on Saturday ...

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 may place a "very big bounty" on the top leaders of the Taliban, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday, adding he was hearing that the Taliban held more American hostages than ...

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.

This week, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity.

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 ...