Taliban officials deny holding a U.S.-Afghan citizen, who witnesses and U.S. officials say was detained by Afghanistan’s intelligence services in 2022.

Top Afghan officials say they want two American detainees released “as soon as possible,” but the Trump administration says a ...

The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...

A recent attack by Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) against Chinese nationals in Afghanistan has raised questions, with analysts ...

Americans are being held in near-solitary confinement by a Taliban counterintelligence unit whose personnel include former detainees from Guantanamo Bay and the US-run Bagram prison.

The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code ...

At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, ...

Khawaja Asif also hinted at deeper defence engagement with Turkey, saying key issues were being discussed and that developments would “unfold and crystallise soon.” ...

An Afghan family fled death threats in their home country. But for them, the U.S. is no longer safe.

Dennis Coyle, 64, was abducted from his Kabul apartment last year and has been held in near-solitary confinement by the ...

New ‘criminal code’ in Afghanistan also legalises ‘Caste-like slavery’, prescribes flog-at-sight for ‘sinners’ & proposes 3 ...

Factional rivalries, tribal loyalties, authoritarian rule and hardline policies are testing Afghan regime cohesion ...