The recent visit to Afghanistan by Pakistani spy chief Faiz Hameed has renewed interest in Islamabad’s alleged role in sustaining the Taliban and highlights its influence over the group. But Pakistan’s ties to the Taliban are more complicated than many people think.
A female Afghan police officer, Zala Zazai, says she was forced to flee Afghanistan due to serious threats as the Taliban was taking over the country.
The Taliban has announced a new Afghan government some three weeks after seizing control of the country from the internationally recognized government of former President Ashraf Ghani. We look at the key figures in the still-unrecognized administration.
Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in mid-August, women's faces have been artlessly deleted from advertisements and murals as the militant Islamists shape a bleak new way of life.
The Afghan Taliban has named a reclusive, hard-line Sunni cleric as its supreme leader in a still-unrecognized governing structure weeks after a dramatic takeover in which the militants seized most of Afghanistan even before the final withdrawal of U.S. and allied forces.
The Taliban on September 7 named reclusive leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada as "supreme leader" and a founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, to lead a new Afghan regime as the radical fundamentalist group seeks to establish its rule after the UN-backed government collapsed in August.
Taliban militants have violently dispersed a crowd of women who had taken to the streets of the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif to call for their rights be preserved and their participation in the new government, according to a protest organizer.
A coalition of UN agencies and nongovernmental organizations says explosive weapons were used to attack about 40 schools in Afghanistan during the first half of this year alone, killing or wounding 185 students and teachers.
The Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has started three days of military exercises in Kyrgyzstan it says are needed in response to the ongoing situation in Afghanistan.
Several American citizens and hundreds of others, including children, have reportedly been prevented for days from flying out of the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif on planes chartered by several U.S. non-governmental organizations.
Taliban militants have fired shots into the air to disperse a rally in Kabul after the militant group swept to power last month.
Beijing's influence across the region is rising, but China’s interests are also facing a new wave of pushback.
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