China has asserted its international right to take on insurgents threatening the lives of its citizens after an attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) killed a Chinese citizen in ...

Defence Minister Bill Blair is dismissing calls from his department’s watchdog to offer immediate compensation, and physical ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

Islamist group warns Islamabad not to ‘underestimate our capabilities’ as it dispatches battalions of fighters to the border The Afghan Taliban has launched a wave of artillery strikes against ...

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021.

Pakistani officials have accused the Taliban of not doing enough to combat militant activity across the border, a charge the Afghan Taliban government denies, saying it does not allow anyone to ...

Taliban leaders pledged to combat transnational militant networks to prevent them from using Afghanistan as a haven for global attacks after they seized power three years ago. However, an annual U ...

KABUL, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has ...

The Taliban says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after it told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women ...