The Zero Units served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate. Now, they face uncertainty as they begin new ...

In these parts of Afghanistan where the ruling Taliban is most deeply rooted in the local ethnic Pashtun community, CIA agents have launched an effort to win the loyalty of dissident Taliban ...

A member of the Taliban Badri 313 military unit walks amid debris of the destroyed CIA base. AFP via Getty Images “We were there for nine or 10 days,” Hasnain said.

CIA Director William J. Burns met face-to-face with the top Taliban leader in Kabul on Monday, according to two US officials, as the US continues airlifting American citizens and its Afghan allies ...

The talks between CIA Director William Burns and Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar come as an Aug. 31 deadline looms for the end of the U.S. airlift and withdrawal of U.S. forces.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed Friday that they used a turncoat CIA operative to carry out a suicide bombing that killed seven American CIA employees in Afghanistan as revenge for a top militant ...

Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, left, met with CIA Director William Burns, right, in Kabul on August 23, 2021, as the U.S. continues evacuations from Afghanistan. Getty Images ...

Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared ...

In a surprise move, CIA Director William Burns traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, and met the Taliban leader. This is the highest level meeting between the U.S. and the Taliban since the group took over.

CIA Director William Burns reportedly held a secret meeting in Afghanistan Monday with the Taliban’s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar — the highest-level diplomatic encounter since the ...

Peter Bergen writes, “(Douglas) London says the Afghan debacle wasn’t strictly an intelligence failure, but a policy failure that started with the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban in ...

The video appears to link the attack, the deadliest against the CIA in 26 years, to the Pakistan Taliban, even though al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban had already claimed credit for the bombing ...