The Taliban responded with contradictory stances in the effort to rescue women and girls who were wounded and left homeless. That's a reflection of tensions between hardliners and pragmatists.

Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social exclusion of Afghan women.

Female reporters were invited after being excluded from Taliban minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's first event in Delhi.

A full-blown conflict between Afghanistan’s Taliban and neighboring Pakistan seemed unthinkable when the hard-line Islamist group, a longtime ally of Islamabad, seized power in 2021 as international troops withdrew and the government their supported collapsed.

The Taliban has demanded that its flag fly over the Afghan embassy in Berlin. The regime wants to replace the Afghan national flag with its white flag with black writing, which is an Islamic declaration of faith.

As it elevates its relationship with India, Afghanistan’s Taliban government is striking a delicate balance in the region.

On October 8-10, 2025, the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan, part of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), an international opinion tribunal competent

Fake death threat letters from the Taliban are being used to dupe the Home Office in asylum applications for Afghan migrants.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.