Secluded in his stronghold in southern Afghanistan, reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is the cornerstone ...

While the release of Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty is to be celebrated, Americans Mahmood Habibi and George Glezmann remain in Taliban custody.

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The Taliban described the agreement as a constructive demonstration of resolving disputes through dialogue. The swap comes ...

The Taliban are believed to have two other American nationals in their custody – Mahmoud Shah Habibi, a senior civil aviation ...

He is believed to have been arrested by the Taliban in August 2022 after a drone strike killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Mr Biden had promised last week that an exchange deal would not ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Biden administration has been in talks with the Taliban to exchange Americans ... U.S. drone strike that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. In addition to Rahim ...

The recent developments in Syria represent a new form of political change, the characteristics of which we will better ...

Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's bid to roll ...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has announced ... Qatar’s lead negotiator, Mohammed bin Abdulaziz bin Saleh Al-Khulaifi, confirmed the Gulf state’s mediation in the exchange, with ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed ... Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, who has never ...