The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful ...

Pakistan said its security forces killed 16 militants in a remote northwestern border area as they tried to enter the country from neighboring Afghanistan.

Pakistan says all fighters killed overnight in North Waziristan while urging Afghan government to secure its borders.

The Taliban say the U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads ...

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban's 'gender apartheid' have adopted the abaya robe favoured ...

Taliban authorities on Thursday freed US citizen George Glezmann after more than two years of detention, in a deal brokered ...

The human rights of religious minorities and others who do not conform to the interpretation of Islam prescribed by the ...

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were arrested as they travelled to their home in Bamyan province, in central Afghanistan, in February. Mrs Reynolds has managed to call her family to say ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a ...

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