Taliban officials deny holding a U.S.-Afghan citizen, who witnesses and U.S. officials say was detained by Afghanistan’s intelligence services in 2022.

Ayman al-Zawahiri was the leader of al-Qaeda and one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists, who oversaw the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The strikes targeted Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, a "senior leader" of ...

Top Afghan officials say they want two American detainees released “as soon as possible,” but the Trump administration says a ...

The lessons of the 1970s matter now more than ever.

Interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has weirdly become the unlikely champion of what passes for ‘reform,’ if such a word can ...

As Afghanistan enters 2026, deep fractures inside the Taliban leadership threaten the regime's grip on power in part due to ...

The Afghan Taliban's dreaded morality police have arrested four young men for dressing like characters from the British TV series Peaky Blinders. The men were detained in the western Afghan city of ...

SYDNEY, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Australia on Saturday imposed financial sanctions and travel bans on four officials in Afghanistan's Taliban government over what it said was a deteriorating human rights ...

Activists gather during a rally on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House August 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump is not known for his restraint, but with ...