In a dramatic shift with far-reaching geopolitical implications, Russia has become the first major world power to formally ...

Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi ...

Nearly four years after the Taliban reconquered Afghanistan, numerous countries have diplomatically engaged with the Islamic Emirate, accepting its rule as a political reality. Yet, no government had ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has denied that his government is preparing to formally recognize the Taliban in Afghanistan ...

Germany has deported 81 male asylum-seekers back to Afghanistan, its second deportation since the Taliban regained power ...

The Taliban has now seized control of Afghanistan two weeks before the United States was due to completely withdraw its troops after a 20-year military presence in the war-torn country.

The arrest warrants, for Afghanistan’s leader and its top justice official, say the restrictions on women and girls are ...

Afghanistan’s forests have been decimated over the past few decades by wars and illegal logging. Now, the Taliban says it wants to preserve them by combatting illegal logging. The group has started a ...

How Taliban 2.0 will rule, two decades later, is far from clear – but there are a few straws in the wind. And they suggest the Taliban see little need to change.

A major issue in the lawsuit from the estate of an Afghan man, who was killed by the Taliban after he was seen in Matthew ...

Germany has deported 81 male asylum-seekers back to Afghanistan, its second deportation since the Taliban regained power there ...