Young Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul. The Taliban Supreme Court on Wednesday announced the public execution of a convicted murderer in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktia.

The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan said it wants a fresh start with the US under President-elect Donald Trump and secure long-sought access to more than $9 billion of the nation’s foreign ...

Taliban officials have scored a series of diplomatic victories this year that have started a subtle shift toward normalizing their government. By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Kabul ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan Taliban officials will attend a major United Nations climate conference that starts next week, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time they have ...

A photojournalist who worked in Afghanistan during the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule says the reinstated group's new ban on images of living things is unfeasible today. In the 1990s, the Afghan ...

Here’s a case of a curious appointment. India doesn’t recognise the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. However, the Taliban on Tuesday night (November 12) announced the appointment of an “acting consul” ...

“A woman can talk to another woman, women need to interact with one another in society, women do have their needs,” Saiful Islam Khyber, a spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and ...

The Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement and said it was in retaliation for the killing of senior leader Ustad Qureshi.

Concerns about press freedom in Afghanistan are growing after the Taliban vowed to impose a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things. State media outlets in the provinces ...