Ultimately, the Taliban's greatest challenge is not opposition but governance itself. Power has been secured; legitimacy not.

The Taliban have increased their use of corporal punishment, with public floggings and executions on the rise.

Pakistan recorded its deadliest year of violence in a decade, with gunfights, airstrikes, and suicide bombings marking much ...

KABUL: Clashes have erupted between Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front (NRF) and Taliban forces in the northern province ...

Four young Afghan men were given a Taliban warning for walking the streets dressed as Thomas Shelby from the TV hit show ...

The Kabul authorities, eager to repair their badly-damaged image, frequently publicize the completion of road infrastructure ...

As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to ...

Asim Munir asked the Afghan Taliban government to choose between Pakistan and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), saying that ...

Through the decades, downtown Kabul’s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still ...

When previously in power, the Taliban destroyed much of the Afghan culture. When Ali Karimi was young, he had to bury his books in the backyard. In 1996, when the Taliban first came to power after ...