Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, the fundamentalist group has banned education for women and girls post-primary school. Women cannot go to parks, and beauty salons and ...
Taliban authorities in northeastern Afghanistan said Wednesday that a gun attack resulted in the death of a Chinese national, while his local interpreter escaped unharmed. An Afghanistan-based ...
The U.S. secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in former President Joe Biden’s final hours in office in exchange for the release of an Afghan Taliban member in U.S. custody ...
Don't ban the Afghanistan men's side from playing international cricket but do expect them to do more for the women and girls who don't have the same rights they do. That's the opinion of two ...
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 to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...
Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released. Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released from Taliban custody in a prisoner swap ...
Two Americans have been released from Afghanistan, their families said Tuesday, as the Taliban announced a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry ...
Jan. 21, 2025 In one of its final acts, the Biden administration secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in a prisoner swap for a Taliban member imprisoned in the United States on ...
Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021. Milley accepted the pardon, saying in a statement he does not want to spend the remainder of ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking ...
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping the country’s women, the chief of a top aid agency warned Sunday. Jan Egeland, the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee ...
In August 2021, 20 years after U.S. troops first stepped foot in Afghanistan — and long after America’s vital national interests there had disappeared — Biden finally brought them home.