Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, they have barred education for women and girls beyond sixth grade, ...

NBC News reports that US and Afghan officials estimate the Taliban’s strength in Afghanistan to be a minimum of 60,000 fighters. This updated figure is significant, because as the report notes, for ...

T he United Nations special rapporteur for Afghanistan has called on Britain to take more refugees from the Asian country and ...

The 22-year-old's defiance of Afghanistan's governing Taliban fits well with her coming from "a family of freedom fighters." Her father fought in the Afghanistan army and then alongside the late ...

The Taliban’s so-called “morality police” enforce bans on Western-style haircuts, music, and women traveling without a male ...

Terror groups in Afghanistan are at odds with one another. Nehemiah Paul with FMI says since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban ...

At least 40 media professionals are currently behind bars in Russia, according to Reporters without Borders, a press freedom ...

But the Taliban has "strong domestic incentives not to do so", said The New York Times. It fears pushing TTP fighters into joining Isis-K, an Afghan offshoot of Islamic State, which is ...

“The Taliban do not represent the true rulers of Afghanistan,” General Yasin Zia, leader of the Afghanistan Freedom Front and former deputy defense minister of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, ...

On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, Baloch freedom fighters hijacked a train in Pakistan's Balochistan. The train had over 500 ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s neglected southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a yearslong insurgency, with a dramatic uptick in attacks in recent years underscoring the struggles ...