A former commander in the Taliban has pleaded guilty to taking an American journalist and two Afghan nationals hostage in ...

Russian law still states that Taliban members must be arrested if they enter the country, but "no Taliban member has been ...

Russia on Thursday suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist ...

Russian authorities have removed the Taliban from their list of terrorist organizations. The Kremlin can now sign agreements with Afghanistan — and also improve its relations with the transitional ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Taliban commander pleaded guilty Friday to providing weapons and other support for attacks that killed American soldiers and for key roles in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a ...

Moscow saw an opportunity to remake the global order in its own image -- in which values are irrelevant, alliances are fluid, ...

A group of Afghan girls who are musicians fled their home country after the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan. They went to Pakistan in the hopes of eventually being resettled in the United States ...

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. The executions took place in sports stadiums ...

They want to turn the women of Afghanistan into obedient, colourless, and voiceless beings. To the Taliban, wearing makeup, even in its simplest form, is a sign of a women’s desire for beauty, ...