Taliban

On September 4, the Afghan news channel TOLOnews quoted Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid insisting that Afghanistan’s Taliban government only ensures the security of relief groups and does not interfere in their affairs.…

The Taliban’s “successful” offensive against the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan, IS-Khorasan, has “significantly degraded” its capability and steadily decreased large-scale attacks against civilians, according to a senior US envoy.…

Pakistani officials say they have been told by Afghanistan’s Taliban that they captured 200 suspected militants for staging deadly cross-border attacks against Pakistan and have implemented other “concrete steps” to…

WASHINGTON — Frustration with the rising threat of terrorism emanating from Afghanistan emerged at a meeting this week of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a defense and economic alliance platform consisting of…

The United Nations will neither replace its female staff in Afghanistan with men nor endanger their safety, a top official for the global agency has pledged. It comes after the Taliban banned the UN…

Washington — A 6-year-old Afghan boy brought to the U.S. after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021 died last week while in federal government custody, marking the third such death this…

The table is set for the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast to remain a geopolitical hotspot, as important as it is distant.  Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), eastern Tajikistan, is many things. It…