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

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 ...

TOKYO -- Russia's and China's recent friendliness with the Taliban interim government in Afghanistan, intended to reap ...

In 2023, the conservative government in the UK set up a secret scheme to covertly relocate thousands of Afghans to the ...

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

The principle of “non-refoulement,” which prohibits the return of individuals to places where they may face harm, has been a ...

Darkly comic videos made by a tour agency and shared by Taliban-linked accounts on social media are encouraging people to ...

In Brief. Afghanistan has largely returned to Taliban rule after 20 years of US-led occupation. There are still bastions of resistance to undisputed Taliban control from the local branch of the ...

Uzbekistan is betting that cooperation with the Afghanistan and the Taliban on infrastructure projects will pay off.

How Taliban 2.0 will rule, ... Two months after they entered the Presidential Palace, the evidence suggests that it’s not a Taliban 2.0 that is running Afghanistan so much as a Taliban 1.1.

The Taliban will be under pressure to keep Afghanistan’s fragile economy afloat. Risking retaliation, an Afghan woman uses the national flag to protest the Taliban.

Taliban forces on the offensive across northern Afghanistan have forcibly displaced residents and burned homes as apparent retaliation for cooperating with the Afghan government, Human Rights ...