So you can't ignore them. And the elder generation of Taliban can't ignore them either." As recently as last week, the Taliban were negotiating with the U.S. and other countries in Qatar.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In early 2022, the Taliban excised the Persian language from government documents and removed the Farsi word for “university” from a banner in Balkh province.

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 ...

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 ...