Most current Taliban officials aren’t subject to U.S. or U.N. sanctions and those that are routinely are granted waivers to travel – with foreign partners often covering the costs. As part of ...

A delegation of senior Taliban officials arrived on Feb. 16 for the first visit to Japan by the Islamic group since it effectively recaptured control of Afghanistan in August 2021. The delegation ...

In recent times, the Taliban’s growing frictions and skirmishes with the Pakistani forces have dominated the news headlines, vindicating the assessments and forecasts of astute Indian intelligence ...

As director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi has the unenviable task of raising revenue for the government of a wretchedly poor, isolated nation.

Malik Muhammad Ashraf ...

New Delhi: Five years after the Doha agreement paved the way for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban, in a shock move, last week said that they no longer consider the Doha pact ...

Mr. Ahmad is a counterterrorism research scholar and author of the Taliban Leadership Tracker at the Middle East Institute. President Trump has promised a bold new American approach to the world.

In 2021, the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan. And since the taliban introduced drug prohibition there, opium production ...

The Republican Taliban doesn’t want my wife ... Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. By contrast, Republican-dominated states are consistently at the bottom of the rankings for women's ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Taliban fighters hold their flag as they celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in ...

India’s government is expected to accept a top Taliban representative to the country soon, the latest step from New Delhi to improve ties with Kabul and counter China’s growing influence in ...

ISLAMABAD: The Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, has ...