Taliban

On Tuesday, US troops spearheaded an increasingly frantic operation to transport thousands of people out of Kabul after the Taliban warned that foreign forces would only be allowed to carry out evacuations for one more week....

On Sunday, the Taliban announced that “hundreds” of its members were en route to the Panjshir Valley, one of the few areas of Afghanistan that the party does not yet control. Since the Taliban took control...

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban, arrived in Kabul on Saturday for negotiations on forming a new “inclusive” administration in Afghanistan, according to a senior official. Khalil Haqqani, one of America’s most wanted...

Girls wearing white hijabs and black tunics crammed into classrooms in the western Afghan city of Herat just days after the Taliban’s takeover. As the school opened its doors, the students scurried down corridors and chatted...

As the US military ramped up its airlift for Americans and Afghans escaping the Islamist organization, the White House claimed Tuesday that the Taliban had assumed that people would be able to travel safely to Kabul...

According to a statement released by the RSF campaign group on Tuesday, a Taliban spokesman has guaranteed that journalists will not be punished in Afghanistan and that women will be permitted to continue working in the...

World powers are still reeling a day after Taliban insurgents stormed Kabul’s presidential palace. The airport in the city has become the last US-controlled zone. On Monday, the United States and the rest of the international...

The Taliban claim to have taken control of Kabul’s presidential palace. President Ghani had already left the country on Sunday, but the real situation at the presidential palace is still unknown. Ghani and his senior advisers...

Despite the Taliban’s swift progress, President Joe Biden reaffirmed his intention to remove US forces from Afghanistan on Saturday, promising to send more troops to evacuate civilians and warning the rebels not to jeopardize the operation....

As the Taliban continues to overrun major Afghan cities like Herat and Kandahar, many Afghan women are worried about their future under Islamist fundamentalist rule if the group takes control of the country. If the Taliban...