Taliban authorities in northeastern Afghanistan said Wednesday that a gun attack resulted in the death of a Chinese national, while his local interpreter escaped unharmed. An Afghanistan-based ...

4, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Khan Mohammed, center, is embraced in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, after his release as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban, ...

Two Americans have been released from Afghanistan, their families said Tuesday, as the Taliban announced a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry ...

The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, deepening the exclusion of women from public life and society ...

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called for India’s inclusion in the ‘Afghan Quad’. The grouping, formally called the ‘Quadripartite Group on Afghanistan’, comprises Russia, China, Pakistan, ...

The last three years have seen the Taliban placing restrictions on all aspects of women’s lives in Afghanistan. From education to employment. From movement to participation in everyday activities.

The Taliban government said Tuesday it had released two American citizens from prison in return for an Afghan fighter held in the United States, in a deal brokered by Qatar. "An Afghan fighter ...

When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in 2021, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled across the border to neighboring Pakistan, seeking safety away from the radical Islamist group. Afghan ...

The U.S. secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in former President Joe Biden’s final hours in office in exchange for the release of an Afghan Taliban member in U.S. custody ...