In a roughly 30-minute phone call Sunday afternoon, President Biden delivered difficult news to the families of three Americans held by the Taliban. He did not have a deal with the Taliban to free ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai appealed to Muslim leaders on Sunday to champion women and girls’ education despite bans imposed by the Afghan Taliban government that the UN says are ...

Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai warned that Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have implemented 100 laws that violate women's rights. She also condemned Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Islamist group warns Islamabad not to ‘underestimate our capabilities’ as it dispatches battalions of fighters to the border The Afghan Taliban has launched a wave of artillery strikes against ...

On August 15, 2021 when Kabul fell to the Afghan Taliban without a single shot fired, an India diplomat posted in Islamabad admitted "Pakistan has defeated us". "Give credit where it is due," said ...

Representatives for the Afghan Taliban also did not immediately respond. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is seeking the return of three Americans seized in 2022 - Ryan Corbett ...

India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift in how it sees the geopolitical reality in the region. This comes more than three years after India ...

Speaking at an international conference on girls’ education in Muslim nations, hosted by Pakistan in Islamabad, the activist said the Taliban’s actions “go against everything our faith ...

Young women living under oppressive Taliban rule in Afghanistan have dared to share their hopes and fears for 2025, which range from an end to "gender apartheid", to simply going for a walk in the ...

The minister referred to a recent UN monitoring team report that identified over two dozen terrorist groups, including the Tehreek-r-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State Khorasan ...

When the Taliban seized power in Kabul in August 2021, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed delivered a triumphant news conference at the Torkham crossing with Afghanistan.

The latest Pakistani air strikes inside Afghanistan have rekindled tensions between Afghanistan's Taliban rulers and Islamabad, who were once former allies. While Pakistan has said it was ...