The leadership and decision-makers of the Taliban originate from a remote and underprivileged tribal background in ...

American woman detained by Taliban in Afghanistan released with Qatari help, part of ongoing negotiations for American ...

Taylor Beard, of Juneau, was among the group ... but told families during a call in January that the Taliban would have to release Afghan-American businessman Mahmood Habibi.

KABUL, May 21 (Reuters) - The Taleban's religious police have tightened regulations in the Afghan capital Kabul, punishing 120 men for trimming their beards and 90 women for not veiling themselves ...

The Taliban's supreme leader said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place. Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking ...

An American woman was freed by the Taliban after she, two British nationals and their Afghan translator were detained in Afghanistan earlier this year, according to a source with knowledge of the ...

By Eve Sampson An American woman detained in Afghanistan has been released by the Taliban, according to a social media post on Saturday by a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq ...

An American woman has been freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan after she, two Britons and their Afghan translator were detained earlier this year, Washington’s former envoy to Kabul, Zalmay ...

Russia’s Supreme Court says it received a petition from the prosecutor general’s office to lift the ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban, who were outlawed two decades ago as a terrorist group ...

Taliban officials have refused to detail the reasons for their arrest. An American woman has been freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan after she, two Britons and their Afghan translator were ...