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 ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Thursday that American national George Glezmann was on his way back to the U.S. after being released by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. Glezmann, an Atlanta ...

According to the pro-Taliban media outlet Al-Mersaad ... Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, Shamsidin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Fayzov—needed an instructional video in the first place, considering ...

The Taliban's repressive policies and widespread rights abuses have made its unrecognized government in Afghanistan a global pariah. To boost its international image, the hard-line Islamist group ...

The men were named by Russian authorities as Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, 32, Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, 30, Shamsidin Fariduni ... by forging ties with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Russian authorities late identified the suspects as Shamsidin Fariduni, 25, Muhammadsobir Fayzov, 19, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, 32, and Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, 30. All four are understood to ...

Image Shamsidin Fariduni, one of the four men suspected ... and has done so with both the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Iranian government in the past year. The warnings aren’t usually made ...

Shamsidin Fariduni, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev ... "focusing on attracting disillusioned Taliban [members] and foreign fighters." Over the past 12 months, this IS branch in Afghanistan has succeeded ...

Russia arrested the four Tajik men believed to be behind the shooting — Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, 32; Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, 30; Shamsidin Fariduni, 25; and Mukhammadsobir Faizov, 19, all of whom ...

Four men accused of staging the Russia concert hall attack that killed more than 130 people appeared before a Moscow court Sunday on terrorism charges showing signs of severe beatings. One ...