The Afghan Taliban will host a trilateral meeting with China and Pakistan in Kabul on Wednesday — the first such high-level ...

The Taliban are starting their fifth year of ruling Afghanistan. They have silenced internal dissent, tightened their control ...

In the four years since the Taliban took control of Kabul, millions of Afghans who initially fled have now been expelled from ...

The Trump administration is escalating efforts to secure the release of Taliban-held U.S. citizen Mahmood Habibi.

August 15, 2025, marks four years of the Taliban regime, after the fall of Kabul in 2021. The four years of the Taliban ...

China, for its part, has resumed engagement with India, Pakistan’s arch adversary and its key competitor for regional ...

The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew after more than two decades of a ...

While the rest of the world pays little attention, the Taliban’s edicts eroding women’s basic rights have only grown in ...

Omulbanin Sultani was among a group of Afghan medical students able to continue their studies in Scotland after the Taliban ...

The Taliban have positioned themselves around several major population centers, including the capital of Kandahar Province, as the Biden administration weighs whether to withdraw or to stay.

How Taliban 2.0 will rule, two decades later, is far from clear – but there are a few straws in the wind. And they suggest the Taliban see little need to change.

The Taliban’s takeover has already pushed the country to the brink of economic collapse. Afghanistan’s banks remain shuttered two weeks after their takeover, and many people can’t access cash.