The United States has lifted a $10 million bounty on Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, days after the group released an ...

GYRATING awkwardly in dark eye make-up and girls’ clothes, the dancing boys of Afghanistan twirl for their depraved masters.

The United States has lifted a $10 million reward offer for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, ...

The barbaric tradition, whose name translates to 'boy play', has persisted for centuries. Afghanistan's current Taliban ...

In a historic move, the International Criminal Court has sought arrest warrants for Taliban leaders. ICC has accused them of ...

The Taliban emerged in the void left by a series of devastating civil wars in Afghanistan towards the end of the last century. As warlords capitalised on the chaos and wrestled for power ...

After all, following the collapse of the Najibullah government in 1992, mujahideen warlords engaged in a prolonged civil war, paving the way for the rise of the Taliban; if factional, tribal and ...

One of the keys to the Taliban success was they offered an alternative. They said, “Look, the mujahedeen fought heroically to liberate your country but have now turned it into a war zone. We offer ...

He faced threats not only from the Taliban but also from drug warlords and government officials desperate to keep their crimes hidden from the public. Yet he refused to let violence define his work.

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