In 2020, Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi pressed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on whether the Taliban’s harsh treatment of women and girls had evolved.

Taliban prisoners walk out vehicles after their release from the Bagram prison, as they arrive in the city of Kabul on May 26, 2020. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty ...

The most tangible part of the U.S.-Taliban deal is a 14-month deadline for complete withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces. While Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper emphasized that the ...

In the past several weeks, Taliban fighters have staged ground attacks and bombings in 24 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, leaving scores dead. In Takhar in the northeast, they ambushed and killed ...

Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and appear to be trying to strengthen their military position ...

Updated at 10:22 a.m. ET. The U.S. and the Taliban have struck a deal that paves the way for eventual peace in Afghanistan. U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad and the head of the ...

The Trump administration’s peace deal with the Taliban was dealt yet another blow Tuesday as the Afghan government announced it was resuming ... Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo ...

Despite an agreement to reduce violence, the Taliban launched an offensive, met by devastating U.S. air power. Now a U.S. envoy says both sides have agreed, again, to pull back.

After a week-long “reduction in violence,” the US and Taliban signed a historic agreement Saturday which sets into motion the potential of a full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and ...

After that, Trump's release of 5000 Taliban in a 2020 deal was bought up by many. The Trump administration's handling of the Taliban in Afghanistan was a key talking point on social media amid the ...

The Taliban stand on the brink of realizing their most fervent desire: U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan. They have given up little of their extremist ideology to do it.

The 2020 agreement has six primary flaws. First, the whole concept of the United States directly negotiating, and eventually signing, a deal with the Taliban—a non-state actor under U.S. and UN ...