Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi groups since taking power in Afghanistan, new research shows. Relationships are ...

The Taliban forced a 13-year-old boy to carry out a public execution, with 80,000 people packing a sports stadium to watch the young teen shoot the man who murdered 13 members of his family. Video ...

On July 3, Russia became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government, a move that the Taliban’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, quickly praised as a “courageous step” and urged ...

Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social ...

Taliban Emir Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada (left) and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani (right). The Taliban rejected arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its emir, ...

The Taliban shut down internet and telecom services across Afghanistan on Monday, plunging the country into near-total digital darkness and drawing a UN warning of “significant harm” to citizens. The ...

A banner announcing Taliban Emir Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada’s 2025 Eid al Adha message that was posted on the group’s El Emerah website. The emir of the ...

Pakistan, established in 1947 as a homeland for South Asia’s Muslims, occupies a pivotal position in regional geopolitics, navigating complex relationships with neighboring Afghanistan and global ...

Last week, as the Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid triumphantly declared 2025 “a year of diplomatic success,” the claim was received with predictable laud from the movement’s echo chambers. But ...

Last week, the Taliban ordered an internet ban across several of Afghanistan’s northern provinces. On September 30, they fully shut down the internet, both mobile and fibre optic, nationwide. The ...

(New York) – Taliban security forces in Afghanistan used excessive force against protesters in the city of Herat on June 9, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today. They beat protesters and shot toward ...

As Afghanistan enters 2026, deep fractures inside the Taliban leadership threaten the regime's grip on power in part due to Supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada's isolationist rule. The beginning of ...