Pakistani forces and Afghan Taliban personnel exchanged fire at several locations along Pakistan’s northwestern border Saturday, with Pakistani security officials and state-run media ...

Since the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan, women's rights and access to education have suffered dramatically. Millions of ...

Pakistan has urged Afghanistan's Taliban government to prevent militants from using Afghan territory to launch attacks inside ...

The Taliban government has intensified its crackdown on the press in recent months but had so far targeted Afghan news ...

Jige Mughalgai, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Taliban government vowed Tuesday to "respond appropriately" to overnight border strikes it blamed on Pakistan that killed 10 people, as tension between the ...

For authoritarian regimes, legitimacy is not a symbolic concern; it is a structural necessity. As political theorist Hannah Arendt argued in “On Violence,” systems that rely primarily on violence ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents say they feel safer after decades of conflict and upheaval but stress the ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Taliban security officers inspect the scene of ...

MPs and the public were kept in the dark when ministers launched their secret Afghan airlift. Now it has emerged they would ...

Peshawar, Oct 17 (PTI) Pakistani security forces on Saturday killed several Afghan Taliban personnel in retaliatory action after alleged unprovoked firing along the border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, accor ...

In an interview, Afghanistan’s foreign minister called on the U.S. to reopen its embassy and invest in the country — a near-impossible sell for now, analysts and former diplomats say. By Elian Peltier ...

England batter Ollie Pope has withdrawn from the Afghanistan Premier League draft amid concerns over the Taliban’s treatment ...