AFGHANISTAN

A Taliban official mocked Americans' reluctance to elect a female leader after Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory.

Human rights activists warn that women could be banned from having conversations with one another after the Taliban declared that women's voices as "awrah."

It shows the cemetery worker was pushed, but blacks out the names of the employee and the Trump campaign staffer involved

Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, said he was wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan, but at least two people dispute the account

Nasir Tawhedi and his co-conspirator were arrested by undercover FBI agents as they tried to buy a rifle and ammunition in Oklahoma's Western District

An Afghan man has been arrested for allegedly plotting to carry out an attack on US election day on behalf of the Islamic State group, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The woman's divorce was canceled when she was about 17, but was overturned after her husband, a newly registered member of the Taliban, won the appeal.

It admonished the former president for holding a political event and defended the 'professionalism' of the employee who scuffled with his team

'We have made significant dents in this network that conducted the Abbey Gate attack,' said Christopher Maier, assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity combat.

Sequestered at home in a remote Afghan town, 18-year-old Shekiba often roams the house hunting for the patchy internet signal that is her last link to an education.

Mechanic Zabiullah Momand revs his sports car engine outside his garage in Afghanistan's capital Kabul before letting it settle back to a purr, the cherry red twin-turbo machine pristine in a dented Mercedes Benz skeleton.

A Taliban official said journalists were committing "a major sin" by taking pictures, Afghan media reported on Wednesday.

While most of the world treats Afghanistan's Taliban government as a pariah, China is growing diplomatic and economic links -- and Kabul is happy for the attention.

Afghanistan maintains its unfortunate position as the least peaceful country globally for the eighth consecutive year.

There are no diplomats from the Afghan Republic remaining in India. Ambassador Farid Mamundzay and others who served at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan have safely "reached third countries," the embassy said in a statement Friday.

Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged 95 percent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop, according to a UN report published Sunday.

An Afghan activist who campaigned for girls' education was released after seven months in detention on Thursday, his family said, the latest high-profile detainee to be released by Taliban authorities this month.

Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott believes the "sky's the limit" for his young stars who shone and then shattered mighty Pakistan at the Cricket World Cup on Monday.

China has signed oil and mining deals with the Taliban and also included Afghanistan in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is part of the BRI project.

China is due to host representatives from around 130 countries for the two-day conference, held on Oct. 17-18, to mark the 10th anniversary of BRI.

Two years have passed since the Taliban regime in Afghanistan stopped girls from receiving education beyond the sixth grade because it did not comply with their interpretation of Sharia, the guidelines from which Islam's legal system is derived.