PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Biden administration has been in talks with the Taliban to exchange Americans detained in Afghanistan for Afghans in U.S. custody, a senior Taliban leader with direct ...

Four months after inaugurating work on the Serhetabat-Herat section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s Ministry of Mines and ...

The Key Issue The Taliban's deputy foreign minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, has called on his government to end its clampdown on the press in Afghanistan. "Too many restrictions and ...

Chris Fitzgerald is a freelance journalist covering Afghanistan and director of the Platform for Peace and Humanity's Indo-Pacific program. The Taliban starts 2025 under significant pressure ...

While the Taliban hope for a "new chapter" in relations with the United States under Donald Trump, analysts say that will depend on whether Afghan leaders uphold their promises. Roshan Noorzai has ...

Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], ...

However, all of the selected cricketers fled the country after the Taliban’s takeover in 2021 and are now living in exile in Australia. Despite Afghanistan not having a women’s team, the ICC has still ...

“I realised that there was no way in which we (Taliban and India) are going to be truly connected with each other in any kind of an understanding,” he said, according to Avinash Paliwal’s book, My ...