The House has passed the "No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act" proposed by Republican Representative Tim Burchett.

Here is a look at the origin of the Taliban; how they managed to take over Afghanistan not once, but twice; what they did when they first took control and how they have ruled since seizing power ...

Shariah is a moral and ethical code followed by many Muslims around the globe. The Taliban, an extremist militant group, has taken over Afghanistan's capital as U.S. troops have withdrawn from ...

Taliban bring back the burka: Afghanistan's supreme leader says women must wear all-covering head-to-toe garment once again. Taliban leader orders all women to wear head-to-toe coverings and burka ...

Around 150,000 British military personnel have served in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, and 457 have been killed. Also, 2,448 American service members have died in the conflict. What happened ...

The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked down on women’s rights and neglected basic services.

In Radio 4's Beyond Belief, Mobeen Azhar and guests explore what the Taliban believe, how they have justified their actions theologically and whether any of those core beliefs are likely to change.

Under the Taliban government of the 1990s, women who failed to wear a burqa in public were often beaten by vice and virtue religious police, who also delivered warnings to male relatives. Image ...

In a conversation with CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, Ali Maisam Nazary, the head of foreign relations for the National Resistance Front, discusses the group’s guerilla war against ...

Islamabad — The Taliban announced Saturday that an all-covering head-to-toe burqa will be mandatory in public for women in Afghanistan, the latest in a set of curbs the Islamist group has ...

Reporting from Kabul, Najibullah Quraishi says the Taliban's vice and virtue squads have reinstituted harsh punishments, including whipping, chopping off hands and even hanging people from cranes.