A former Taliban commander has pleaded guilty to providing support for attacks that killed American soldiers and for key roles in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a reporter for The New York Times and ...

Taliban security personnel stand guard at a checkpoint after a man was publicly executed at a soccer stadium in Zaranj, Nimruz Province, Afghanistan, yesterday. Photo: AFP Two men were shot around six ...

In a stark display of authority, the Taliban publicly executed two men in Badghis province, citing Islamic law. Mohammad Wali and Mohammad Anwar were convicted of separate murder cases ...

During Ramadan, men's attendance at mandated congregational prayers was closely monitored. The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others ...

The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, a UN report said Thursday ...

Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul. A strict Islamic morality law introduced by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers six months ago has severely muzzled civil liberties in the country, according ...

The Taliban’s morality police have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles, and others for missing prayers at mosques during Ramadan, a UN report has said. It comes six months after laws ...

The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, a U.N. report said ...

A pensioner being held by the Taliban with his wife for more than two ... and murderers by handcuffs and ankle cuffs, including a man who killed his wife and three children, shouting away, a ...

As per Nazir's claim, he would have been in his 30s during the Third Anglo-Afghan war of 1919: the man has claimed that he was not only there during the war, but that he also celebrated the end of ...

A British man in his 70s held hostage by the Taliban has described living in Afghanistan's most notorious prison as "the nearest thing to hell". Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie ...

In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the Trump administration, appearing to sense an opening to re-establish ...