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 ...

(AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Khan Mohammed, center, is embraced in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, after his release as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban, Tuesday, Jan.

This year will see the start of operations for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its ten-year mission of repeatedly surveying the sky. The immense amount of recorded data will allow scientists across ...