Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People from Afghanistan leave a plane after landing at Hanover-Langenhagen Airport. After months of waiting, several families have ...

The Taliban’s new criminal code enforces total obedience to its supreme leader, criminalises dissent, restricts women’s movement, and permits violence by husbands and citizens.

Khadija Ahmadzada was detained for being in "violation" of rules "regarding women's sports gyms", a Taliban spokesman said.

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 ...

Afghanistan's rulers released a US citizen from custody following a visit by Washington’s hostage envoy, the US government and Taliban said on September 28, as the ostracized Taliban rulers continue ...

In this photo released by Qatar's Foreign Ministry, U.S. citizen Amir Amiri, left, poses next to an unidentified woman, aboard a plane in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, after being ...

Congress is now one step closer to ensuring U.S. taxpayer dollars don't end up in Taliban coffers.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The Taliban released on Friday a British couple held in Afghanistan for more than seven months on undisclosed charges, likely part of a wider effort to get their ...

The Taliban have stopped fiber-optic internet services in a northern Afghanistan province, an official said Tuesday, leaving tens of thousands of Afghans without internet access and making it more ...

When the Taliban swept across Afghanistan and retook power in 2021, most countries severed diplomatic ties, but now India is leading a change of heart around the world. Despite claims that its second ...

A rumor circulating online in December 2025 claimed that throughout 2025, and specifically on Dec. 8, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration sent $45 million in weekly cash payments to the ...

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban on Sunday freed a U.S. citizen from an Afghan prison, weeks after they said they had reached an agreement with U.S. envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an effort to ...