Russia’s highest prosecutor has formally asked that the Taliban be removed from the nation’s terrorism list — just months after President Vladimir Putin called the Afghan extremist group ...

The Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place.

Afghanistan’s opiate economy is unlikely to be disrupted by a one-off campaign of crop destruction in a handful of provinces.

Analysts suggest Russia's primary goal is to assert influence in Afghanistan and Central Asia while countering Western involvement in the region.

Pakistan's military says security forces killed 30 militants who attempted to enter the country from Afghanistan. It said the ...

Taliban leaders have re-established their brutal fundamentalist Islamic and gender-apartheid regime, reversing the social progress achieved over the past two decades.

This is not the first time we have heard about the targeting of the Hazara by the Taliban. Indeed, the Taliban’s return to power was marked by attacks against the minority community in Afghanistan.

At the Taliban’s grandest parade since regaining control of Afghanistan, none of the speakers talked about the everyday challenges facing Afghans.

A top Taliban official said on Saturday that all Afghans who fled the country after the collapse of the former Western-backed government are free to return home, promising they would not be harmed ...

China has been seeking greater economic and security involvement in Afghanistan since the US withdrawal in August 2021 as it looks to fill the vacuum left by the US.

The Taliban administration, the de facto rulers of Afghanistan since 2021, had been invited to the conference but at the last minute the group said it would not attend.

The legacy of the Taliban regime, which meant to be a new Taliban 2.0., but failed on all fronts, is gender apartheid, genocide, and gross human rights violations.