The Taliban leader has made a rare visit to a university in Afghanistan in his first known trip to a modern education institution.

More than three years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country's new leaders insist they have improved people's lives, but for years the Taliban has ruled with an iron fist ...

Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who is reported to have fled to Dubai after criticising the education ban and the Taliban’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. (photo credit: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu/Getty ...

KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies’ efforts to create divisions among the movement’s leaders and the people, a spokesman said, ruling out the prospect of ...

In September 2022, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai created a flutter by calling on the Taliban to reopen secondary schools to girls during a televised speech. The Taliban’s acting deputy foreign ...

An ICC prosecutor wants arrest warrants issued for Taliban leaders, signalling global concern for women facing brutality. Even if the ICC can’t do much, we need international institutions to ...

KABUL, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions among the movement's leaders and the people, a spokesman said, ruling out the ...

But the new Trump administration has already taken a much more aggressive stance: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said bounties could be placed on Taliban leaders to force the release of any remaining ...

Without unity, nothing would exist." The remarks come after a Taliban leader spoke out last month against policies denying formal education to girls, while this week Taliban guards fired shots ...

Pakistan’s ISI has a long history of maintaining clandestine and not-so-clandestine ties with various Afghan political groups ...

Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s political deputy at the foreign ministry, had called on other leaders to open schools for girls and women in January and said the edict forbidding them from ...