The European Union is expected to reach a deal Wednesday on a migration reform to create so-called "return hubs" outside the bloc, with som...

For decades, the US grappled with Pakistan's dual role as a terror war ally and a supporter of militant groups. Despite accusations of shel...

Afghanistan's anti-doping efforts have collapsed since the Taliban's return. No tests were conducted for three years. Last year, only four ...

The experts said in the report to the UN Security Council that with the onset of better weather, fighting may escalate as both Islamic Stat...

Holding red, green and black flags of Afghanistan and placards inscribed with their demands, the protestors raised slogans against the Tali...

Baradar, who heads the Taliban's political office in Doha, will be joined by Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of late Taliban co-founder Mul...

To govern, the Taliban need more than mastery of terror, more than Pak expertise.

To some extent, the world already knows how that will work, because the Taliban have been essentially controlling parts of Afghanistan for ...

With robust support from Pakistan and a growing resource base, the Taliban is quickly consolidating hold on most of Afghanistan.

Following is a list of provincial capitals that have fallen to, or are being contested by the Islamist militants, who are fighting to reimp...

Over the past six days, the insurgents have overrun nine provincial capitals across the country, most of them clustered in the north, in a ...

The militants have ramped up their push across much of Afghanistan, turning their guns on provincial capitals after taking large swaths of ...

In recent days the Taliban have escalated attacks on northern provinces, which lie outside their traditional strongholds in the south but w...

Pakistan, considered mentor of Taliban, interestingly sealed its border with Afghanistan on Wednesday after Taliban wrested control from Af...

The crossing, south of Afghanistan's main southern city Kandahar, is the landlocked country's second busiest entry point and the main link ...

The ministry said 69 Taliban fighters had been killed in fresh operations on the edge of Qala-e-Naw - the first major provincial capital en...

"It was up to the Afghan government to resume talks with the Taliban and our job is just of a facilitator," Aziz was quoted as saying by Ra...