Reclusive Taliban leader speaks of importance of modern education in a rare university visit
The Taliban’s reclusive leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution. Hibatullah Akhundzada spoke of the importance of worldly ...
They helped US order airstrikes against Taliban. Now Trump's moves have left those Afghans in limbo
Thousands of Afghan refugees who worked alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan and underwent a yearslong vetting process ...
Taliban raids and suspends Afghanistan’s only women’s radio station
The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, ...
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A Taliban highway could lead to the future. But it’s stuck in the past.
Taliban officials have a plan to turn one of the country’s most remote corners into a global trade hub by linking the Afghan ...
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Pakistan is furious with the Afghan Taliban
Instead, the powerful unelected generals who run Pakistan have mostly received a middle finger. In December, 16 Pakistani ...
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Taliban Fast Facts
Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...
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The Taliban Is Selling America’s Lost Afghanistan Arsenal
Given the Taliban’s contacts during their twenty-year insurgency, it should come as little surprise that American weapons are ending up in the hands of the world’s worst rogues’ gallery.
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The Taliban take over Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel, more than a decade after attacking it
(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] The Taliban are ...
Turkey ends former Afghan government’s diplomatic tenure, paving way for Taliban-appointed mission
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey has terminated the mission of diplomats appointed by Afghanistan’s former pro-Western government ...
Taliban holding on to $7 billion of U.S. military equipment left behind after withdrawal
On the eve of his inauguration, President Trump accused the Biden administration of handing over U.S. military assets to the Taliban following the 2021 withdrawal — a withdrawal that Mr. Trump ...
Taliban minister who publicly opposed girls’ education ban 'flees' Afghanistan
A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled ...
Malaysia has not established official relations with Taliban-led Afghanistan, says Education Minister
Malaysia has not established official bilateral relations nor cooperation in education specifically with the Taliban-led ...