"There is no one left, except the elders, and the poor who cannot afford to leave," said Abdul Wajid, 30, who stayed behind to watch over t...

The Taliban are a jihadi force that believes in the practice, imposition and spread of extreme Sunni Islam through conquest and violence. H...

Thousands of Taliban fighters overrun eight districts of Panjshir overnight, according to witnesses from the area. They spoke on condition ...

Earlier on Sunday Fahim Dashti, spokesman for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRFA), which groups opposition forces, said the...

Several of the women, who were demanding inclusion in the yet-to-be named Taliban government, said they were beaten by Taliban fighters — s...

Facing the challenge of morphing from insurgents to rulers, the Taliban appear determined to snuff out the Panjshir resistance before annou...

Tajikistan, strategically placed in Central Asia, on Thursday awarded its highest distinction to former Afghan defence minister Massoud and...

He recalled that the conflict in Afghanistan has been continuing for decades. "The former Soviet Union has its own experience in that count...

The US government's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is “strategically wrong-headed” and “emotionally ill-considered”, the auth...

"They have cut off telecommunication services in Panjshir for the last two days. Panjshir people are facing challenges in this regard and c...

The Alliance, a concoction of tribal leaders and warlords held out in the northern parts of Afghanistan against the Taliban more than 25 ye...

Gen Roychowdhury, who commanded the 16 corps in Kashmir at the height of the militancy in the early 1990s, said buoyed by the Taliban's tak...

"Fortunately, today we are celebrating the anniversary of independence from Britain," the Taliban said. "We at the same time as a result of...

"I will never, ever and under no circumstances bow to d Talib terrorists. I will never betray d soul and legacy of my hero Ahmad Shah Masou...

While former Herat strongman Ismail Khan, now in his 70s, is planning to regroup to fight the Taliban, dozens of fighters have pledged loya...

Since the United States announced plans in April to pull out all of its troops by Sept. 11, at least 30 districts have been seized by the T...

Eighteen years after that fateful day for Afghanistan and the region, Taliban is on the cusp of making a comeback having survived the spott...