Russia on Thursday became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban’s government in Afghanistan since it seized ...

Sayed Naser, an Afghan man who worked with U.S. troops, was detained by ICE officers on June 11 after attending a mandatory immigration hearing in San Diego, CBS reported on Wednesday. An Afghan ally ...

The Taliban suspended chess — during its first iteration of rule, and now, because it's "a means of gambling," the sports minister Atal Mashwani told the French news service, AFP.

Chess in Afghanistan isn't madly followed like cricket or the national game — buzkashi — a polo-like sport, except the jockeys have whips and they have to dash across a field holding the carcass of a ...

The Taliban's ban on playing chess in public was reported in May by local and international media, but it appeared that it had begun long before, implemented in stops and starts. Hassanzadeh told NPR ...