In the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, four Navy SEALs found themselves in a brutal firefight against a large Taliban force. This video revisits Operation Red Wings—tracing the mission’s objectives, ...

Findings from interviews with 38 former Taliban detainees have been shared with the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan. Arpan Rai and Mahbob Shah Mahbob, for Afghanistan International, report ...

Taliban fighters have protected western military bases in Afghanistan from attacks by rival, or rogue Islamist groups for over a year under a secret annex to a pact for the withdrawal of all U.S ...

During the US-led war against the Taliban, Afghan Air Force pilots played a key role alongside American counterparts. The pilots who CNN spoke to did not want to reveal their identities.

The Taliban’s control had been essentially true for days, or even weeks, as whole cities fell to the insurgents one by one, and an American military that once flexed its muscles across the ...

The Taliban’s swift success has prompted questions over how the insurgent group was able to gain control so soon after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan – and, after almost 20 years of ...

High-level Taliban officials have arrived in Japan, their hosts Japanese grant-making organization Nippon Foundation said Monday, making it the first known visit by the Taliban since their takeover of ...

May 8, 2025 NEW DELHI – The statement issued by Afghanistan’s Taliban government denouncing the recent terrorist attack in the Indian resort of Pahalgam, in Jammu and Kashmir, was eye-opening.