A former British diplomat and NATO representative in Afghanistan says he is not optimistic about the situation in the war-torn country as its Taliban leaders continue to restrict rights and freedoms, ...

Pakistan, Aug. 3 -- Former Afghan parliamentarian Baktash Siawash has strongly criticized the Taliban and predicted the group ...

This interview provides an overview of advocacy efforts to secure the release of Ryan Corbett, a US citizen who the Taliban have detained in Afghanistan for over two years, his health deteriorating ...

When U.S. military forces quit Afghanistan in August 2021, they didn’t take everything with them, as filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at would discover. As the Taliban took possession of a reputed CIA base ...

In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international ...

Quraishi is a veteran Afghan journalist. Late last summer, while reporting a story for FRONTLINE, he put out word that he would like to interview one of the new Taliban commanders leading a growing ...

Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of the largest Islamist party in Pakistan, has voiced his opposition to a planned operation by the military to root out militants along the Afghan border. In an interview ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s new ...

Where the Taliban are stronger, you have a so-called Taliban government in place. It's not the case in Badakhshan [province], for example, but it is in Kunduz and Baghlan, where you have this very ...

WASHINGTON -- It was during another war, with its own controversies, and President Lyndon B. Johnson was irate over U.S. news media reporting on the conflict in Vietnam. "Well, dammit, if they won't ...

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