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 ...
China and Tajikistan also share a 477km (296-mile) border running through the high-altitude Pamir Mountains in eastern ...
Last year was actually one of increased isolation, regional tensions, and strategic failure.
Defaced and vandalized posters of women across Kabul highlight concerns by Afghan women that the new Taliban regime will mimic the old one.
Four young Afghan men were given a Taliban warning for walking the streets dressed as Thomas Shelby from the TV hit show Peaky Blinders.
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 ...
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 House of Representatives has passed legislation which its supporters say aims to stop U.S. funds from ending up in the hands of the Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan after the U.S. pulled ...
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 ...