ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their ...

In a dramatic shift with far-reaching geopolitical implications, Russia has become the first major world power to formally ...

Even after the Taliban prevailed in the civil war in 1996, it was unable to conquer all of Afghanistan before it was toppled from power after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.

Nearly four years after the Taliban reconquered Afghanistan, numerous countries have diplomatically engaged with the Islamic ...

Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi ...

Taliban advances closer to Kabul, taking all of Logar province, ... The leaders are there to negotiate a transfer of power, Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahed told ABC News on Sunday.

By 1996, the Taliban rose to power. In October 2001, the U.S. and its allies invaded Afghanistan after the Taliban refused to hand over the Al Qaeda leader and author of 9/11.

The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for their alleged failure ...

Days before President Donald Trump said he would help Afghan evacuees who fled their country and were stuck in the United ...

The Taliban celebrated 3 years in power on Wednesday at the Bargram base, a former U.S. air base that was at one time the center of America's war to unseat the group; women were not allowed to attend.

Excluding the group from power is no longer an option. Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, seated second from left, looks as members of the Taliban delegation arrive for an international peace ...

Contrary to what we might expect, when Islamist groups like the Taliban seize power, they tend to achieve some popular support at first. This isn’t because of their radical Islamist ideology ...