A Taliban ambassador issued a chilling jihad warning to new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after he threatened to place a bounty on their heads. A prisoner swap between the U.S. and ...

The leader of Afghanistan’s governing radical Taliban has defended his policies, including banning female access to education and employment, asserting that they are derived from the “commands ...

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.

Khan Mohammed, left, stands in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, after his release as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Mohammed ...

Critics say the government is failing Afghans at risk of deportation back to the Taliban-led country. Pakistani officials have set a deadline to expel foreign nationals living illegally in the ...

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.

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 ...

A Taliban delegation has arrived in Japan on what is the first visit by the group that rules Afghanistan, according to media in the East Asian country. The delegation, consisting of foreign ...