In the year since the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan, Taliban leaders have moved quickly to reshape the country. The Taliban takeover ended two decades of war, but it has also ...

The Taliban put a murder suspect to death Wednesday, the fundamentalist regime’s first official public execution since retaking control of Afghanistan last year. The man accused of a fatal stabbing in ...

Treated for severe acute malnutrition at a UNICEF health clinic last year, 5-year-old Parwana is now excited to go to school. Her family still struggles to get by. Five-year-old Parwana, successfully ...

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — When Zahra Wafa thinks about what it took to put her daughters through school, her face hardens. She remembers the days she and her husband ate only bread to afford their ...

March 20 (UPI) --George Glezmann, a Delta Airlines mechanic detained by the Taliban during a trip to Afghanistan in 2022, was on his way back to the United States on Thursday, both Washington and ...

In December 2022, the Taliban, the de facto authority in Afghanistan, banned women from public and private universities until further notice. Reportedly, this decision was partly due to female ...

Summary and Key Points: It weighs 35 pounds, a single soldier can fire it, and it has terrorized the Russian air force across ...

Two Americans who had been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been released and are en route to Qatar, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. Two of the sources tell CNN that one of ...

The families of two Americans detained in Afghanistan hope to ratchet up pressure on the Biden administration to do more to get their loved ones home after more than a year. Ryan Corbett and Mahmood ...

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 ...