One major reason behind the move is the ongoing internal power struggle between the Haqqani network and figures loyal to ...

Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

WHO WERE THE MEN RELEASED? According to the DOJ website, Mohammad was a member of the Afghan Taliban who had been sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts at the age of 38 in the first ever ...

The department called Mohammed a “violent jihadist” and said he was a member of the Taliban who tried to kill US soldiers with rockets. In secretly recorded conversations with an informant ...

Jan. 21, 2025 In one of its final acts, the Biden administration secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in a prisoner swap for a Taliban member imprisoned in the United States on ...

Islamist group bring their pregnant wives to clinics and hospitals demanding female doctors but ban women from midwifery ...

As one of its last acts in office, the Biden administration struck a deal to free two Americans held in Afghanistan in exchange for one Taliban member held in a U.S. prison. The Taliban released ...

The order, giving Afghans until March 31 to go elsewhere in Pakistan, came on the heels of President Trump’s suspension of ...

A diplomat from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban cautioned the United States on Monday against threatening retaliatory measures in response to detentions of U.S. nationals in the country. “Our ...

Released Afghan was a member of Taliban found guilty of narco-terrorism charges: U.S. DOJ records Ryan Corbett, NGO worker, detained in Afghanistan in 2022, among released Americans: family ...

Afghan Taliban Member Freed From US Custody in Exchange for Two Americans, Kabul Says KABUL (Reuters) -The United States has freed an Afghan convicted by an American court on charges of drug ...