The Taliban are starting their fifth year of ruling Afghanistan. They have silenced internal dissent, tightened their control over Afghan life, secured recognition from Russia as the country's official government,

The metal sides of the old green wheelbarrow blazed under the scorching sun, too searing to touch with my bare hands. As we pushed through the crowd, Taliban fighters loomed like spectres of death. Their eyes swept over us. One wrong move, one suspicious glance, and this wheelbarrow would become my coffin.

Since 2021, more than 800 Afghan families, about 4,000 individuals, have resettled in Connecticut, advocates say.

With the Afghan army largely collapsed, the Taliban rolled into Kabul and assumed control on Aug. 15. The Biden administration scrambled to evacuate staff, American citizens and at-risk Afghans.

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities marked the fourth anniversary of their takeover on Friday, buoyed by Russia's first official recognition of their government, a step they hope other countries will follow.

The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China are scheduled to convene in Kabul on August 20 for high-level trilateral talks aimed at strengthening regional cooperation, sources confirmed on Thursday.

While the rest of the world pays little attention, the Taliban’s edicts eroding women’s basic rights have only grown in number. Former female inmates of the group’s prisons tell Arpan Rai they are bei

A confluence of manmade and environmental factors makes the Afghan city the first modern capital to risk running out of groundwater