So you can't ignore them. And the elder generation of Taliban can't ignore them either." As recently as last week, the Taliban were negotiating with the U.S. and other countries in Qatar.

Before I left, many people both in the capital and in Kandahar told me that the Taliban had indeed changed, “but for the worse.” One of them was a tribal elder and an anti-Taliban police chief ...

The American Dream is still very much alive. “The American Dream is not that every man must be level with every other man,” Ronald Reagan once said. “The American Dream is that every man must be free ...

A Taliban fighter called the family to inform ... the loving memories his relatives have of a hard-working and selfless elder son. She describes how he had ambitions of lifting up the family ...

she would return to marry a Taliban elder. Instead, the U.S. military offered her a job, after hearing about her ability to outsmart the Taliban. “I was not only a translator, I was like a ...

Taliban forces have carried out abusive search ... he was working for or providing health care to ISKP. A tribal elder said: "This is a lie that he was a Daesh doctor." Mubariz’s partner was ...

The elder Haqqani was considered a key member of the Haqqani network, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization headed by his nephew, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who serves as the de facto Taliban ...

In early 2022, the Taliban excised the Persian language from government documents and removed the Farsi word for “university” from a banner in Balkh province.

The Taliban threatened those present with death if word of the mass graves leaked. The Taliban has repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness to take accountability for its members’ crimes.

It was unclear who was behind Monday's attack in Mir Ali, which has been a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban, and there was no comment from the army about the incident.

In the first incident, unidentified armed men gunned down a tribal elder and injured two other ... The Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehrik-e Taliban (TTP), is staging a gradual comeback ...