Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced that a ceasefire with neighboring Pakistan would go into effect Wednesday, after a second ...

Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further ...

When the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, it did not simply change the flag over Kabul. It altered the everyday world of Afghan women in a way that is now hard to comprehend from outside the ...

The Taliban's decree allowing domestic violence under certain conditions has sparked international condemnation and raised human rights concerns.

The three years following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan have been a deadly game of cat and mouse for employees and allies of U.S. and NATO forces left behind under Taliban rule. Among the de ...

Pakistan has accused Afghanistan of becoming ‘a colony of India’ but India’s relations with Kabul predate the Taliban.

House Republicans are fuming at the Biden administration over reports that tens of millions of dollars of U.S. humanitarian aid to Afghanistan may have ended up in Taliban hands. During a House ...

From a fetid bridge underpass frequented by addicts, to a police station, to a grim drug detoxification ward, this all-formats package driven by powerful visuals takes a stunning look at Afghanistan’s ...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released a report examining the religious liberty implications for women and minorities in Afghanistan four years after the ...

Ahmad Mukhtar is a producer for CBS News based in Toronto, Canada. He covers politics, conflict and terrorism, with a focus on news from Canada and his home nation of Afghanistan, which he left ...

The Taliban denied using force to divert international aid in Afghanistan on Thursday, responding to a US watchdog report that said authorities used "every means at their disposal, including force," ...

A State Department office gave the Taliban $1.8 million through foreign aid programs and defended the payments when asked about them, according to a government watchdog report. A Department of Defense ...