The Taliban leader said executions were part of Islam, days after four men were killed by gunfire in Afghanistan after they were convicted of murder.

An American woman detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released from custody, according to a person ...

Faye Hall is one of four Americans known to have been released by the Taliban this year. She called on President Trump to ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Rifts are growing among Taliban officials over the group's decision to ban girls from secondary education, leading at least one minister to leave Afghanistan and forcing ...

The leadership and decision-makers of the Taliban originate from a remote and underprivileged tribal background in Afghanistan. Consequently, they are fundamentally opposed to the development of ...

The Taliban leader said Sunday there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect.

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education, bringing ...

George Glezmann, an airline mechanic from Atlanta, is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January. He was seized by the Taliban's intelligence services in December 2022 and ...

The Taliban's leader said there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as there are sharia laws.

Two other Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, were released from Afghanistan this year in a deal struck during the ...

An American was freed from Afghanistan on Thursday after more than two years in Taliban captivity in a deal brokered by Qatar. George Glezmann, a Delta Air Lines mechanic, has left Kabul and is ...

The UN children’s agency has urged Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government to immediately lift a ban on girls' education beyond primary school, saying that if the ban continues until 2030 more ...