National security adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly offered to resign from President Biden's administration after the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, according to The Washington Post's ...

The recent cross-border strikes by Pakistan and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), backed by the Afghan Taliban, have heightened tensions between the two neighbours. Traditionally, before the ...

Dr Bizhan said Pakistan had long promoted religious extremism to counter Afghan nationalism. "During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, Pakistan established religious schools to ...

But Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group that dislodged Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in early December, and outside governments alike can learn from a cautionary precedent: the Taliban’s 2021 ...

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan – Dr Yi-Pin Lin, an associate professor at Tufts University, proudly says he has vacationed in 120 nations over the past decade. But there was one country he had always ...

That element, of course, is Count Orlok’s mustache. Played by Bill Skarsgård in the film, Count Orlok has a distinctive and off-putting appearance as one might expect for the vampire with long ...

As the world looks ahead to 2025, a group of young Afghan women brave great personal risk to share their hopes and dreams for the new year, one they'd love to live free from Taliban rule.

Young women living under oppressive Taliban rule in Afghanistan have dared to share their hopes and fears for 2025, which range from an end to "gender apartheid", to simply going for a walk in the ...

One striking clip shows Soviet-era tanks, relics of the USSR's failed invasion of Afghanistan, being transported towards the front lines. Another video features NATO military vehicles ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has expressed deep alarm over Afghanistan’s recent decision to revoke the licenses of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that continue to ...

In the latest crackdown on women’s rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban have announced they will no longer allow any national or foreign NGOs that employ women to operate in the country.

The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after it told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women ...