The Taliban’s hard-line government in Afghanistan is making major inroads in garnering legitimacy abroad. Despite its extremist policies, the international community has accepted that the Islamist group is here to stay,

Twenty European countries on Saturday called upon the European Commission to provide more options for returning Afghans without residence permits to their home country. The Dutch government published a letter to this effect addressed to EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner.

What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted nearly as old as the country itself.

It would allow the US to again project power in the region, with China close by. But taking it back won't be easy.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers blocked internet access nationally for two days without any explanation, but suddenly, the country is coming back online.

Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have flared in recent days with the exchange of deadly gunfire between the neighbors that has stoked fears of a wider conflict.