Senior Taliban official hits out at own group’s policies towards women - Deputy foreign minister says ‘there is no excuse’ ...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai said that restrictions on girls' education in Afghanistan were not in accordance with Islamic law and teachings.

The interim Afghan government conceded to the Pakistani authorities in closed door meetings that the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was a problem but objected to Islamabad's approach in ...

The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has contributed to the international ...

Donald Trump spent part of his last full day as president-elect visiting the graves of three U.S. soldiers killed in the ...

President-elect Donald Trump again said he would get Ukraine and Russia to stop fighting while also saying he would demand ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no ...

The head of a major international aid agency is warning that funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping ...

The downside of his performance stems, in part, from the fact that the world is more complicated, its problems more ...

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told ...