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GYRATING awkwardly in dark eye make-up and girls’ clothes, the dancing boys of Afghanistan twirl for their depraved masters.

His is a rare public remark, but several times in the past three-and-a-half years, Taliban leaders have told us in private that they too believe women and girls should be allowed to study and that ...

Afghanistan's radical Taliban leaders on Thursday rejected the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their country, declaring as ‘unlawful’ the decision in 2003 by their ...

leader of a faction of the Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam party, was among the five people killed, the police chief said. The cleric was the son of Maulana Samiul Haq, “the father of the Taliban" who was ...

Central to this struggle are the disagreements between the leader of the Taliban movement, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, and Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani, concerning governance ...

These measures were implemented in response to terrorism concerns, as key Taliban leaders were designated as global terrorists by the United Nations for directing years of insurgent attacks on U.S ...