The Taliban government in Afghanistan appealed on Sunday for international flights to be resumed, promising full cooperation with airlines and saying that problems at Kabul airport had been resolved. ...

Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local government official said on Saturday.  Sher Ahm...

The Taliban beat up a landlord the other day for housing a gay man, who helplessly recorded the assault on his phone from his rooftop hideout. Genocide against the gay community is rampant in Afghani...

A little more than a month after toppling the western-backed government in Kabul, Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are facing internal enemies who have adopted many of the tactics of urban warfa...

The Taliban, which now rule Afghanis tan after overthrowing the elected government of President Ashraf Ghani, are unlikely to represent their country at the high-level United Nations General Assembly ...

The Taliban have nominated an ambassador to represent Afghanistan at the United Nations, UN officials said on Tuesday, injecting a new twist into what was already a delicate diplomatic quandary in the...

Special envoys of China, Russia and Pakistan have met top officials of the Taliban’s interim government as well as Afghan leaders Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul and discussed the fo...

The Taliban have written to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres nominating their spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan's new ambassador to the UN and have asked to participate and speak in the hi...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday underscored the need for caution in recognising the “new system” in Kabul, saying its failure to be representative of all sections of Afghan society ...

Afghan schools will open for boys from Saturday, the new Taliban ministry of education said in a statement that gave no indication of when girls might be able to go back to their classes. More than a...