The Taliban described the agreement as a constructive demonstration of resolving disputes through dialogue. The swap comes ...

The Taliban are believed to have two other American nationals in their custody – Mahmoud Shah Habibi, a senior civil aviation ...

Amidst the fears of a full-scale Pakistan-Taliban war, a new report has emerged, claiming that the Afghan Taliban had struck ...

Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to roll ...

The deal was struck for Khan Mohammad, a member of the Taliban serving two life sentences in a U.S. prison on ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

KABUL, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has ...

MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash-Ta'al) spoke today about the release of the three hostages from Hamas captivity and compared them to the terrorists being released as part of the agreement. "I am happy about ...

A Taliban official has publicly urged the group's leadership to lift the ban on women's and girls' education. He has called it unjust and contrary to Islamic law. In a rare public rebuke ...

A senior Taliban official has called for the reversal of the group's controversial ban on education for Afghan women and girls, describing the policy as unjust and un-Islamic. Sher Abbas Stanikzai ...

Many are still haunted by the aborted legacy of DR Congo’s first prime minister, who was murdered on January 17, 1961. Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal ...