The regime is coming in from the diplomatic cold, as countries lose hope of armed opposition and seek cooperation on ...

The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan as the United States withdraws troops nearly 20 years after the war began. The insurgents stormed across the country, capturing all major cities in a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban left many surprised. To Ali Olomi, a historian of the Middle East and Islam at Penn State University, a key to understanding what is ...

Since 2021, the Taliban has encouraged the growth of madrasa schools, raising concerns about religious indoctrination and the ...

What's it like to be a girl or a woman in Afghanistan today, three years after the Taliban took back control? Well, here's just one example - the Taliban's ministry of vice and virtue has declared ...

Former President Trump during Tuesday night’s debate recounted a threat he made to “Abdul … the head of the Taliban” as he and Vice President Harris engaged about the Biden administration’s handling ...

Three years after the departure of the final US troops from Afghanistan, the situation in the country is bleak, with the Taliban tightening its grip as it introduces increasingly oppressive laws that ...

The Taliban represent the worst of religious fascism that is drenched in extreme misogyny for the purpose of allaying their fear of temptations and achieving their fantastical desires to enjoy eternal ...

For a country whose government is not recognised by any nation, Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has had an unusually busy calendar in recent weeks. He has hosted his ...

When previously in power, the Taliban destroyed much of the Afghan culture. When Ali Karimi was young, he had to bury his books in the backyard. In 1996, when the Taliban first came to power after ...