The new approach, including the first known visit by U.S. officials to Kabul since 2021, comes down to transactionalism.

The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads ...

These guitarists – 18-year-old Yasemin aka Jellybean, 16-year-old Zakia, 14-year-old Shukriya, and seven-year-old Uzra – are ...

Afghanistan's last female ambassador, Manizha Bakhtari, continues her fight against Taliban from Austria, advocating for ...

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the ...

By Christina Goldbaum and Adam Goldman The United States has lifted multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior Taliban officials, according to Afghan authorities and a senior American official.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is praising Qatar for helping the U.S. secure the release of an American held by the Taliban for more than two years ...

George Glezmann was detained while traveling in the country after the Taliban’s victory in the war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked Qatar for helping to secure his release. By Edward Wong ...

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Zalmay Khalilzad, the key negotiator in one of the largest US diplomatic debacles in recent memory, could nonetheless be on track to return as Donald Trump’s mediator with the Taliban ...