Before we had even begun to weave through the city of Mazar-i-Sharif – once an ultimate bulwark of resistance against the insurgent group and now under Taliban control – the region’s ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban captured the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday in a multi-pronged attack involving hundreds of fighters, the first time the insurgents have seized ...

The Taliban has seized control of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, local officials told CNN on Sunday.It is the first major city to fall to the insurgent group since they began their offensive in ...

ABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban seized a province just south of Afghanistan's capital and launched a multi-pronged assault early Saturday on a major city in the north defended by powerful ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban seized a province just south of Afghanistan’s capital and launched a multi-pronged assault early Saturday on a major city in the north defended by powerful ...

The capital, Sheberghan, in Jowzjan Province, collapsed less than 24 hours after a provincial capital in southwestern Afghanistan was also taken over by the Taliban. “The whole city has ...

Since trading the battlefield for Afghanistan's halls of power, some Taliban members have also swapped their weapons for pens ...

Witnesses, meanwhile, said an explosion targeted a Taliban vehicle in the eastern provincial city of Jalalabad, and hospital officials said five people were killed in the second such deadly blast ...

But several senior officers and strategists now think that this approach no longer makes sense and that more troops are necessary to prevent the Taliban from further reclaiming the pivotal city.

Since then, the militant Islamist group has changed the names of scores of prominent streets, squares, universities, and even a city. The Taliban has replaced some local Dari and Pashto names with ...