The Taliban is stronger now than it has been since it was forced from power in 2001. Over the years, it has captured territory across the country and today exercises control or influence over at ...

In the south, key towns are now Taliban territory. The BBC's Auliya Atrafi was invited by the militants to spend four days behind the front line in Helmand province witnessing life under their ...

Taliban officials announced Friday that the Sunni Muslim insurgent group had taken control of 85% of territory in Afghanistan and its fighters were tightening their grip on strategic areas.

A timeline of Afghanistan’s recent diplomatic engagements: Head of the Taliban’s political office in Doha, Qatar, Suhail Shaheen said the group is a “reality of today’s Afghanistan” as it “controls ...

Saeedullah Saeed's remarks come amid a sharp increase in TTP-led violence emanating from Afghan territory, with over 600 ...

Following the U.S.-led invasion that toppled the original regime in 2001, the Taliban regrouped across the border in Pakistan and began taking back territory less than ten years after their ouster.

However, this development should not be viewed in isolation. New Delhi’s recent warming of relations with the Taliban may be ...

The National Resistance Front is one of the few anti-Taliban factions to claim actual territory and broadcast relatively significant offensives against the ruling Islamist movement. In fact ...

We knew that they weren’t about to come out into Taliban territory. Read: ‘This is not Saigon. This is worse than Saigon.' We tried four more times, and each time we were turned away.

ISKP made its declaration of war against Baloch separatists and acknowledged the existence of its bases in Balochistan ...

A Taliban government official said the airstrikes ... said the nation “will not accept the violation of the country’s territory under any circumstances, and the country is ready to defend ...