Before I left, many people both in the capital and in Kandahar told me that the Taliban had indeed changed, “but for the worse.” One of them was a tribal elder and an anti-Taliban police chief ...

“Allah kills and the cruel get rid of the cruel,” an Afghan elder there told The Daily Beast. “Who could believe that the whole family of the Taliban symbol of cruelty, Dadullah, would be ...

according to a tribal elder, Tawhidi, who spoke on the condition that he be identified only by his last name for fear of reprisals. He said he has witnessed Taliban fighters carrying out summary ...

A Taliban fighter called the family to inform ... the loving memories his relatives have of a hard-working and selfless elder son. She describes how he had ambitions of lifting up the family ...

Local elders in northwest Pakistan say a suspected drone strike has killed four children and wounded five others ...

In the first incident, unidentified armed men gunned down a tribal elder and injured two other ... The Pakistani Taliban, also known as the Tehrik-e Taliban (TTP), is staging a gradual comeback ...

The elder Haqqani was considered a key member of the Haqqani network, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization headed by his nephew, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who serves as the de facto Taliban ...

The Taliban's supreme leader said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place. Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking ...

she would return to marry a Taliban elder. Instead, the U.S. military offered her a job, after hearing about her ability to outsmart the Taliban. “I was not only a translator, I was like a ...

The Taliban is investigating an Afghan man’s claim to be 140 years old – which, if verified, would make him the oldest person ever to have lived. Aqel Nazir, who lives in the country’s ...

Taliban fighters have committed hundreds of extrajudicial killings since taking power in Afghanistan in 2021, despite a “general amnesty” meant to protect the previous government, according to ...