Most current Taliban officials aren’t subject to U.S. or U.N. sanctions and those that are routinely are granted waivers to travel – with foreign partners often covering the costs. As part of ...

As director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi has the unenviable task of raising revenue for the government of a wretchedly poor, isolated nation.

Mr. Ahmad is a counterterrorism research scholar and author of the Taliban Leadership Tracker at the Middle East Institute. President Trump has promised a bold new American approach to the world.

A Taliban delegation has arrived in Japan on what is the first visit by the group that rules Afghanistan, according to media in the East Asian country. The delegation, consisting of foreign ...

KABUL - The Islamic State group on Feb 15 claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing of a Taliban government ministry in Afghanistan which killed one person and wounded at least three more this ...

A Taliban government delegation was visiting Japan for the first time on Monday (February 17, 2025), in a rare diplomatic visit outside of the region. The Afghan delegation left Kabul on Saturday ...

A Taliban government delegation was visiting Japan for the first time on Monday, in a rare diplomatic visit outside of the region. The Afghan delegation left Kabul on Saturday, in a visit that ...

POL-E-KHOMRI, Afghanistan — When the Taliban seized power in 2021, many feared the new government would ban buzkashi, Afghanistan’s beloved national sport, which the group had deemed sinful ...

A delegation of high-ranking officials from the Taliban interim government in Afghanistan has reportedly left for Japan. The Taliban's deputy minister of economy, Latif Nazari, posted on social ...

A senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official met with visiting senior officials of Afghanistan's Taliban-led interim government in Tokyo on Tuesday and urged them to cooperate with the ...

The Dansville father, who lived in Afghanistan for years while operating a consulting firm in Afghanistan, was visiting the region for business when he was wrongfully detained by the Taliban in ...

KABUL — An Afghan TV station resumed operations Saturday, its leadership said, after being shut down in December by the Taliban morality ministry. Seals placed on Arezo TV’s doors in Kabul ...