Taliban

An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released. The White House and family members said Monday his release came in an exchange for a convicted Taliban drug lord jailed in the United States. Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran who spent more than a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor,...

The rapid takeover triggered a hasty escape of the nation’s Western-backed leaders, sent the economy into a tailspin and has fundamentally transformed the country.

Over 1,000 people were killed early Wednesday morning after a powerful earthquake struck a mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan.

Taliban hard-liners, who came to power last August, have turned back the clock in Afghanistan to their harsh rule from 1996 until December 2001.

A new Taliban decree that demands women cover up from head to toe in public, showing at most their eyes, has left many Afghans angry or fearful.

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have announced a ban on the poppy harvest, even as farmers in some parts of the country began extracting the opium from the plant that is needed for making heroin

The New Yorker magazine has posted a video showing an American man who was kidnapped in Afghanistan two years ago.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have refused to allow dozens of women at Kabul’s international airport to board their flights because they were without a male guardian

Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world — even before the Taliban swept to power last August

For the first time, photos showing Sirajuddin Haqqani’s face were published by official Taliban government channels

The Biden administration is seeking to assure financial institutions and other businesses that U.S. sanctions on the Taliban aren’t intended to interfere with trade that could help Afghanistan emerge from an economic and humanitarian crisis.

Afghans across the political spectrum have decried an executive order from President Joe Biden last week, accusing the U.S. of taking money that belongs to Afghans.

Federal immigration officials have denied hundreds of Afghans seeking temporary entry into the country for humanitarian reasons

Hundreds of protesters have marched through the streets of the Afghan capital toward the shuttered U.S. Embassy, calling for the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets

Afghanistan’s gross domestic product could see a contraction of up to 30% following the Taliban takeover, the IMF said in its latest regional economic report.

A senior U.N. official says the Taliban told him they will announce “very soon” that all Afghan girls will be allowed to attend secondary schools.

The Taliban say Washington has agreed to provide humanitarian aid to a desperately poor Afghanistan on the brink of an economic disaster, while refusing to give political recognition to the country’s new rulers.

The Taliban have ruled out cooperation with the U.S. to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan

Officials say senior Taliban members and U.S. representatives are to hold talks about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country

A blast in a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers has killed at least 25 and wounded dozens in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz