Stanikzai is the first senior Taliban figure to publicly criticize his government's draconian crackdown on Afghanistan's once ...

Khalil Haqqani, a senior figure within the Haqqani Network and the Taliban’s Minister for Refugees and Repatriation, was ...

This new restriction defies logic and could represent a death sentence for Afghan women and girls in dire need of potentially ...

Russia's parliament advances a bill that could set the stage for Moscow to remove the designation of the Taliban in ...

In 2014, Taliban militants attacked a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing more than 140 people, mostly children. In 2020, a ...

Khalil Haqqani's death marks the highest-profile assassination in Afghanistan since the Taliban reassumed power in 2021.

Funding its war against the United States, the Taliban reaped millions from boom towns trading opium, heroin and meth. Victorious, the group crushed the trade, leaving ghost towns in its wake.

In the first episode of our special holiday series taking a left-field look at conflict and war, we hear personal stories ...

The rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria poses a direct ideological and strategic challenge to the Taliban’s hardline ...

The Taliban has reportedly banned women in Afghanistan from attending nursing and midwifery classes in yet another blow to women’s rights since the Taliban takeover. The latest directive closes ...

The Taliban’s minister of refugees, Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, was killed along with four others in a suicide attack in Kabul on Wednesday. The deceased minister was a senior leader within the ...

KABUL, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban's acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, and six other people were ...