Foreign terror groups ranging from al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) enjoy more freedom in Afghanistan than in ...

Taliban's first conquest of Afghanistan came in 1996 when, as a military movement, Taliban stormed Kabul, the capital. The conquest resulted in the first Taliban rule of Afghanistan which lasted for ...

KABUL -The Taliban have signed a provisional deal with Russia to supply gasoline, diesel, gas and wheat to Afghanistan, ...

The Taliban returned to power in August last year, routing government forces as the US-led military ended a 20-year ...

It was largely coincidental, but ironic, that soon after the reclusive Taliban supreme leader Sheikh Hibatullah Akhundzada sought to expand Afghanistan’s political and economic relations ...

The attack on Kabul last week that killed Taliban garrison commander Hamdullah Mukhlis, a lieutenant of interior minister ...

Last week, the Taliban in Afghanistan published outrageous new laws on “vice and virtue” that require women to completely cover their bodies, including their faces, in public at all times. In issuing ...

The European Union will hold its first-ever meeting with representatives of the Afghan Taliban movement to discuss migration ...

Russia is preparing to remove the terrorist designation from the Taliban, Russian envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kamulov announced Friday, according to state media. Kamulov said the Federal Security ...

Afghanistan's schools are now in recess for winter. But when they reopen in spring, girls and women will have the chance to return to classes for the first time in five years. As RFE/RL correspondent ...