The exchange comes as the Taliban seeks to gain international recognition and improve Afghanistan’s economic crisis, caused in part by frozen international funds and the mass departure of ...

Hall’s release was not part of any prisoner exchange. It was negotiated in part by representatives from Qatar, who have worked as intermediaries between the U.S. and the Taliban. “American ...

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in ...

were released from Afghanistan this year in a deal struck during the final days of the Biden administration in exchange for a member of the Taliban being held in U.S. custody.

After Glezmann, the Taliban released American Faye Hall less than two weeks later, again without receiving anyone in exchange. In January, the group delayed the release of two other Americans ...

In January, Americans Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty were freed in a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and the Taliban, for Khan Mohammed, an Afghan serving a life sentence in a federal ...

Russia’s Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban, who were designated as a terrorist group more than two ...

Manizha Bakhtari is on a mission to show that resisting the Taliban doesn’t mean “wanting a war” again in her home country. As the last serving female ambassador from Afghanistan anywhere in ...