The arrest of an Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militant who is suspected of helping plan an attack against the U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2021 marks an upturn in strained ties between Washington ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Taliban fighters hold their flag as they celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in ...

Jan Egeland Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Photo: Sheena Ariyapala/DFID/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, expressed ...

File photo of NRC's director-general Jan Egeland meeting displaced sudanese. (Photo by Karl Schembri / Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) / AFP) / The Norwegian funding will improve the NGOs' financial ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Arrest warrant issued for deputy foreign minister as figures in Afghanistan government criticise supreme leader’s stance on girls’ education The Taliban is facing an internal revolt over women ...

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 ...

Senior Taliban official Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has reportedly left Afghanistan after publicly opposing the regime's ban on women's education. Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who is reported to have ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A top Justice Department official on Wednesday told FBI agents they would not be fired if they worked on January 6 investigations because they were ordered to do so ...