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 ...

In a surprise move, CIA Director William Burns traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, and met the Taliban leader. This is the highest level meeting between the U.S. and the Taliban since the group took over.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The CIA director prefaced this by admitting the agency had not predicted the Taliban would take over the country as fast as they did and that “all of us have lessons to learn from experiences ...