NEW YORK - Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund has announced a general amnesty for Afghans who fled the country after the fall of the Western-backed government in 2021. In a message marking ...

The Taliban leadership is seeking to leverage Afghanistan’s considerable mineral wealth in a comprehensive effort to gain ...

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

Russia has performed poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine and will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of ...

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

"This stems from the reality that the Taliban control the territory, and the world fears the potential alternatives: civil war, a stronger ISKP, and overall instability." ...

Two and a half years into their reign, the Afghan Taliban have cemented their ultra-conservative rule across the war-torn country but have yet to turn their fighting force into a traditional military.

“The advance continues towards Khenjan in North Salang now,” the former official said, noting that locals were quick to remove the Taliban flag in the re-captured regions. As the Taliban swept ...

Protests erupt in defiance of the Taliban, which brags that it forced the U.S. out of ‘our holy territory of Afghanistan.’ Aug. 19, 2021 That said, Akhundzada’s jihadi credentials are ...

Kabul was stronger then: the Taliban had conquered far less territory than it would in 2021, and U.S. troops in the country were still able to bomb Taliban forces and provide critical technical ...

But it proved more difficult to hold territory and rebuild a nation battered by repeated wars. As the U.S. focus shifted to Iraq, the Taliban began to regroup and in recent years took over much of ...