Taliban

Russia says it's establishing 'full-fledged partnership' with Afghan Taliban

Russia sees a need to work with Kabul as it faces a major security threat from Islamist militant groups based in a string of countries from Afghanistan to the Middle East.

Taliban security personnel climb barefoot up a steep and sandy mountainside on a weekend at the Sayad area of Reg-e-Rawan in Kapisa province on April 24, 2026.
Mutasim Agha Jan.

Taliban arrests senior co-founder Mullah Mutasim Agha Jan amid deepening internal rifts

Taliban Deputy Spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat speaks during a press conference about the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 3, 2026.

Afghan women’s rights advocates urge Melania Trump to support girls facing Taliban restrictions

Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted, as he heads towards the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in Manhattan, earlier this month. The handling of Maduro’s transportation to New York was done without discretion to send a message, the writer says.

Maduro returns to US court as rare narcoterrorism law faces key test at trial - analysis


Pakistan security forces kill 54 Afghan-based terrorists in major border operation

A significant cache of arms, ammunition, and explosives was recovered from the scene.

 Taliban fighters check on injured comrades at the entrance of the emergency hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan November 2, 2021

Ex-Taliban commander pleads guilty to taking US journalist hostage

Haji Najibullah was previously charged in 2020 with kidnapping David Rohde, a former Reuters correspondent.

 Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah, previously accused of kidnapping an American journalist, appears on charges related to murdering three U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008 during a court hearing in New York, U.S., October 15, 2021 in this courtroom sketch.

America's rushed Afghan pullout allowed Taliban to traffic US weapons to Houthis - report

Sources claim that half the weapons left behind by the US have been lost, sold or smuggled.

 Taliban walk in front of a military airplane a day after the U.S. troops withdrawal from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 31, 2021.

Taliban release detained US citizen Faye Hall

Faye Hall was received at the Qatari embassy in Kabul and confirmed to be in good health after undergoing a series of medical checks.

Faye Hall, who has been released from Taliban custody and is with Qatari diplomats, is seen in Kabul, Afghanistan March 29, 2025.

How ISIS and al-Qaeda are expanding across North Africa - opinion

As long as terrorist groups exploit illicit trade networks, the risk of their expansion into North Africa and Europe remains dangerously high. 

Islamic State holds a parade in Raqqa in June, 2014

Spanish police arrest 11 suspected members of Pakistani Taliban in Barcelona

The suspects are accused of ties to a Pakistani-origin terrorist organization that promoted violent actions—including murders and beheadings—via encrypted communication channels.

 Members of the Taliban terrorist organization in the Barmal district of eastern Paktika province. December 26, 2024.

Trump: ‘We were going to keep Bagram, not because of Afghanistan but because of China’

The US president says Bagram Air Base is a critical asset for countering China, as experts debate the feasibility of reclaiming abandoned US military equipment in Afghanistan.

 A Taliban soldier enters a helicopter at Bagram Air Base in Parwan, Afghanistan, September 23, 2021. Picture taken September 23, 2021.

Islamism: The Left’s moral black hole - opinion

Liberals are more concerned with “Islamophobia” than with the content of Islamist doctrine. It is they who are guilty of a profound failure of empathy.

 The results of the 1996 Dizengoff Center suicide bombing.

Taliban minister flees after condemning ban on women's education - report

Senior Taliban official Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has reportedly left Afghanistan after publicly opposing the regime's ban on women's education.

 Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who is reported to have fled to Dubai after criticising the education ban and the Taliban’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada.

HTS are aiming to create Taliban-style Sharia government - opinion

No one wishes failure for the new Syria or strives to bring it about. Our region has grown weary of wars and conflict. These newcomers from extreme terrorist groups must now prove themselves.

 SYRIAN FOREIGN Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani (right) attends a news conference with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Damascus last week. The new Syrian leaders have not fully adopted the Afghan model, though social media debates about their past still continue,