A suicide bomber has killed an anti-Taliban village elder and at least three other people in Afghanistan's central Ghazni Province.

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.

“Allah kills and the cruel get rid of the cruel,” an Afghan elder there told The Daily Beast. “Who could believe that the whole family of the Taliban symbol of cruelty, Dadullah, would be ...

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 ...

son of the iconic 1990s anti-Taliban militia leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. The elder Massoud was killed by al Qaeda militants in Afghanistan just before the group carried out its September 11 ...

The tribal elder requested anonymity out of fear for his life. The Taliban are known to beat people in areas they control if they are suspected of criminal acts, spying or violating the militants ...

He was “was the third tribal elder to be slain by the rebels during the last two months in Paktika, where the security situation has been on a nosedive.” The Taliban was blamed for the attack.

The Taliban has named a 14-member team of negotiators, including five former Guantanamo Bay inmates and a high-profile jailed leader, for the second round of talks with the United States.

“The soldiers simply dropped their weapons, got in their vehicles and went to the district center or provincial capital,” said Faqirullah, a village elder who goes by one name. As Taliban ...

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters shot dead a pro-government Afghan elder who had resisted the influence of the militants in a northern province and was due to attend a government ...

The Taliban's supreme leader said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place. Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking ...