Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahmad Massoud stands in front of a portrait of his father, the revered Afghan guerrilla commander Ahmad Shah Massoud (Special ...

Russia’s highest prosecutor has formally asked that the Taliban be removed from the nation’s terrorism list — just months after President Vladimir Putin called the Afghan extremist group “a trusted ...

Five years after seizing power, the extremist group is making trade and diplomatic inroads with other countries The post The ...

The Taliban’s newly reported criminal code in Afghanistan treats women as “slaves,” permits limited domestic violence, restricts their movement, and introduces class-based punishments. Here’s what the ...

Noor Wali Mehsud, the emir of the TTP. The Afghan Taliban and the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan maintain a “close” relationship, the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring ...

Russia is preparing to remove the terrorist designation from the Taliban, Russian envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kamulov announced Friday, according to state media. Kamulov said the Federal Security ...

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday suspended its two-decade ban on the Taliban, which is designated as a "terrorist organisation". The latest move is set to pave the way for the establishment of ...

The chronic failure of governance and unyielding attachment to regressive values notwithstanding, the Taliban’s hold over Afghanistan appears to be consolidated. Initial hopes that the Taliban 2.0 ...

Afghans living abroad have told RFE/RL of their fears and concerns following Russia's decision to officially recognize the Taliban as their country's government. Russia is the first country in the ...