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.

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials said senior Taliban representatives were in the capital for talks, as part of Tokyo's efforts to help Afghanistan build a more inclusive political system and ...

Jet fighters flew over a packed stadium in southern Pakistan, streaking the sky with the green and white of the national flag and garlanding a sporting spectacle the country has been waiting to host ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese officials said senior Afghan Taliban officials were in Japan for talks, as part of Tokyo's efforts to help Afghanistan build a more inclusive political system and protect ...

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

Pakistan's long-held assertion that the Afghan Taliban continue to provide support to the banned TTP has now been validated by a recent United Nations report. Despite Islamabad's repeated ...

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 ...

After two decades of war against the United States and its allies, the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan in August 2021, and since then, the Taliban have made drastic changes to the country's ...

(Anna Corbett via AP) Khan Mohammed, center, is embraced in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, after his release as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban, Tuesday ...

While the primary goal of this week's meetings is to “restore" U.S.-Russian relations, the Ukraine war will be a key point as ...

"It is a little bit silly. I mean, we have had some real duds, so I’m not sure we really want to be celebrating all presidents. And the tradition actually comes from celebrating birthdays ...

Stage and audience alike at Studio 8H were packed with cast, alumni and other celebrities in a night that was in turns sweet and self-satirizing. By Dave Itzkoff After a half-century of comedy and ...