The Taliban claim they can still use grenades and piles of ammunition left behind at a CIA base in Kabul after US troops hurriedly blew up the complex before withdrawing from Afghanistan.

CIA Director William Burns met Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The meeting between Burns and ...

CIA Director William J. Burns met face-to-face with the top Taliban leader in Kabul on Monday, according to two US officials, as the US continues airlifting American citizens and its Afghan allies ...

Washington — CIA Director William Burns met with the Taliban's de facto leader in Kabul on Monday, a source familiar with the situation said, in what marks the group's highest-level encounter ...

Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared ...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan, about the resurgence of the Taliban in the country. After 20 years, American ...

The CIA analysis released Thursday provides a new ... It acknowledges that “high-value targeting” had been conducted against the Taliban only on an intermittent basis at that point, with ...

CIA Director William Burns reportedly held a secret meeting in Afghanistan Monday with the Taliban’s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar — the highest-level diplomatic encounter since the ...

CIA Director William Burns held a secret meeting with the Taliban co-founder and political leader Abdul Ghani Baradar on Monday, the sources said. The meeting was first reported by The Washington ...

A Northern Alliance soldier, second left, embraces a defecting Taliban fighter on the front line near the village of Amirabad, between Kunduz and Taloqan, on Nov. 24, 2001. (Jerome Delay/AP) In a ...

The video appears to link the attack, the deadliest against the CIA in 26 years, to the Pakistan Taliban, even though al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban had already claimed credit for the bombing.