The Taliban had agreed, in a February 2020 deal with the United States, to negotiate with the Afghan government over the shape of a power-sharing government and a lasting ceasefire.

The Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan, almost 20 years after being ousted by a US-led military coalition. Emboldened by the withdrawal of US troops, they now control all key cities in the ...

According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Long War Journal real-time map of control, the Taliban now control 242 of Afghanistan's 407 districts—almost 60 percent—with another 100 ...

Afghanistan: Mapping the advance of the Taliban. An animated map showing how and when the Taliban captured 26 out of the country’s 34 provincial capitals in just 10 days.

Afghanistan: Map shows the Taliban’s rapid advance as more cities fall. The Taliban has seized two more cities in Afghanistan and claims to have “completely conquered” another, as the US ...

Officials say a roadside bomb has struck a vehicle carrying a government administrator in a former stronghold of the ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A map compiled by a news site called The Long War Journal has an update on America's longest war. As U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the color-coded map shows the ...

The ascent of the Taliban has redrawn the diplomatic map for the U.S. and its rivals as they compete to shape the future of Afghanistan. China and Russia already are moving to build ties with th ...

The Taliban Militia (Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement) rules approximately two thirds of Afghanistan. While it seemed as if the Taliban was successfully defeated in the 2001 U.S, invasion ...

The Taliban are preparing to set out their new Islamic government imminently, naming Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, the insurgency’s top religious leader, as the country’s supreme authority ...

An Afghan walks near the world’s tallest standing statue of Buddha in Bamiyan province in Afghanistan on Dec. 7, 1997, years before the statue was destroyed by the Taliban in 2002. (Image credit ...

Taliban Conquest of Afghanistan Scrambles the Diplomatic Map U.S. efforts to isolate the Taliban could be undercut by new regime’s outreach to Russia, China and neighbors By ...