More than three years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country's new leaders insist they have improved people's lives, but for years the Taliban has ruled with an iron fist ...

The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, deepening the exclusion of women from public life and society ...

Islamabad, Pakistan — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime saw two Americans freed in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California ...

Tehran’s growing engagement with Kabul underscores a calculated effort to navigate its own economic and geopolitical ...

A Taliban fighter opened fire at the United Nations compound in Kabul, slightly injuring a security guard, and was later found dead, the U.N. mission in Afghanistan said Monday. The gunman shot at ...

Two Americans have been freed in a prisoner swap between the U.S. and Afghanistan’s Taliban in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California, officials said Tuesday.

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan announced Tuesday the release of two American nationals as part of a prisoner exchange for one of their members, who was held in the United States on narcotics ...

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.

As one of its last acts in office, the Biden administration struck a deal to free two Americans held in Afghanistan in exchange for one Taliban member held in a U.S. prison. The Taliban released ...