Beneath the official narratives of “stability” and “return,” lies a brutal truth: Afghanistan remains a deeply unsafe country ...

Russia is increasingly approaching Afghanistan as yet another Central Asian state – including gradually opening access to its ...

When a cockfight begins in Kabul, the noise is immediate. Roars of “Hit!” and “Kill!” erupt among spectators as two birds ...

And the country’s Taliban government, which seized power more than three years ago but has yet to be formally recognized by ...

Aid groups contracted with the United States have paid at least $10.9 million in fees and taxes to the Taliban so they can ...

To those who know the Middle East, such thoughts make little sense. They are hogwash.

The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information that helps find Mahmood Habibi, an Afghan-American national it says ...

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

Before the Taliban came to power, she used to run classes for women and girls. "Not only did the local community, families and schools not forbid us," she recalled, "we were actually encouraged." ...

But chess players said the game has long been played here — except when the Taliban first came to power in 1996 — and banned chess, for the first time, said John Butt, an Islamic scholar who ...