Taliban

Executions and hand amputations will return to Afghanistan, Taliban official says

Asher Notheis · September 23, 2021 6:42 pm

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., questions Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, not shown, about Sirajuddin Haqqani's role in the Taliban government, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

State Department holds firm on Taliban and Haqqani network being ‘distinct entities’

Jerry Dunleavy · September 22, 2021 7:54 pm

US and Russian military leaders meet amid terrorism concerns

Mike Brest · September 22, 2021 6:07 pm

Henaa Salehi used to work in President Ashraf Ghani's legal office in Afghanistan prior to the Taliban's takeover in August.

Meet the Fulbright scholar and former Afghan government lawyer who is lucky she escaped

Mike Brest · September 22, 2021 11:00 am

US: Taliban request to speak this week won’t be approved

Joel Gehrke · September 21, 2021 11:58 pm

Turkey signals support for Taliban-led Afghanistan

Joel Gehrke · September 21, 2021 9:01 pm

In this Nov. 3, 2015 file photo, Afghan Taliban fighters listen to Mullah Mohammed Rasool, the newly-elected leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban, in Farah province, Afghanistan.

FBI worried about Haqqani terrorist holding key Taliban government post

Jerry Dunleavy · September 21, 2021 8:52 pm

From 2002 to 2013, the rate of heroin overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, and in 2013 alone there were more than 8,000 deaths. (AP Photo)Â

India seizes 3 tons of Afghan heroin worth $2.7 billion

Luke Gentile · September 21, 2021 7:49 pm

UK data breach jeopardizes contact information of Afghan interpreters

Virginia Aabram · September 21, 2021 5:20 pm

Taliban appoint more men to Cabinet despite international pressure to include women

Virginia Aabram · September 21, 2021 12:30 pm

Erdogan’s U-turn in Afghanistan shows the danger of outsourcing security missions to autocrats

Erdogan’s U-turn in Afghanistan shows the danger of outsourcing security missions to autocrats

Aykan Erdemir · September 21, 2021 12:00 am

Taliban cut off education to millions of girls

Barnini Chakraborty · September 20, 2021 6:17 pm