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 ...

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We sat in Parliament and watched in horror as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021. Since then, the situation for women and girls there has deteriorated dramatically. They have been ...

(Hamid Mohammadi via Wikimedia under CC BY-SA 4.0) On February 18, 2025, various factions of the anti-Taliban resistance wrapped up the fifth Vienna Process Conference for a Democratic Afghanistan, ...

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Afghanistan’s Taliban has rejected claims made by US President Donald Trump that China holds control over Bagram Airfield, a crucial US-operated military base in Afghanistan. The sprawling Air Base in ...

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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 ...

While the contexts between the US’s involvement in Afghanistan and support for Ukraine are very different, Trump’s early strategy for the latter has some hallmarks of the US’s disastrous deal with the ...

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media during his meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (Not Pictured) at the White House. -/Ukrainian Presidency/dpa Advertisement ...