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The article focuses on the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan over the past three years, highlighting the country's worsening human rights situation and the complexities of international diplomacy as nations navigate relations with the Taliban amid ongoing concerns over terrorism.

The article focuses on the Taliban's escalating restrictions on women's rights in Afghanistan and the potential for an international treaty to address these abuses, including the international community's lack of effective response to these violations.

The article recounts the wedding of Sammi Cannold and Safi Rauf, a couple from different cultural and religious backgrounds who overcame significant obstacles to unite. It also discusses their experiences with Rauf's captivity by the Taliban, the couple's efforts to support Afghan evacuees, and their shared commitment to bridging cultural divides.

The article reports a suicide bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan, targeting a bank, killing at least 20 people, including Taliban members, highlighting ongoing security threats post-U.S. withdrawal.

The article reports on the Taliban fighters from Afghanistan who have crossed illegally into Parkistan to battle alongside an insurgent group. It raises fears about the rise of violent extremism under the Taliban in Afghanistan and the possible surge of terrorist groups in other countries. Factors driving Taliban fighters include religious education in madrasas that promote ideals of jihad and martyrdom and the collapse of the Western-backed government in Afghanistan.

The article reports on the growing suffering among people in Afghanistan amidst the celebration of the Taliban of their successful return to power and the exit of U.S. forces in the country as of September 2021. Also cited are the closure of the U.S. embassy, the claim of U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken that diplomatic mission for Afghanistan will be based in Qatar, and the comment of U.S. President Joe Biden on his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

The article looks back at the shooting of 11-year old Malala Yousafzai by the militant group Taliban in Pakistan in 2012 after she spoke against the subjugation of women and insisted of wanting to get an education and become a doctor.

The article reports on a recent police raid and crackdown in Karachi, Pakistan, targeting Afghan migrants, resulting in arrests and deportations. The Pakistani authorities have given Afghan migrants 28 days to leave voluntarily or face arrest and deportation, which is widely seen as a sign of increasing hostility between Pakistan and the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

The article reports that the Taliban has taken over the Green Zone neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan. The neighborhood once served as a diplomatic area used during the war effort in the country where Western diplomats and high-ranking Afghan officials can be seen. The area has been repurposed by the Taliban to establish their own military and government, with families of Taliban officials settling into the dwellings abandoned by Western officials.

The article reports on the bomb attack by Taliban militants in Kabul, Afghanistan using an ambulance packed with explosives. Topics discussed include casualties from the attack, political tensions, violence and fear in the country; views of Baseer Mujahid, spokesman for the Kabul police, on how the bomber entered to the street; and denounce of the attack by the U.S. President Donald Trump.

The article reports on the move by former Shiite Taliban commander Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahid to form his own group to fight the ruling Taliban group in Afghanistan. Also cited are the efforts by the Taliban to increase its forces in the district controlled by Mujahid to repel his growing rebel group, and the rebels' goal of securing rights for women and the Shiites.

The article reports on how the Taliban has entered another era of global isolation following the killing of terrorist group al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri by a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. Also cited are how the discovery that the Taliban is again sheltering terrorists could affect its efforts to gain international recognition, and the Taliban's enactment of oppressive policies like restrictions on women's rights to travel and work.

The article focuses on sufferings of women and exploitation of citizen's right by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The article reports that Former British military leaders and the Afghan government has criticized an apparent claim from Prince Harry's memoir that he killed 25 Taliban fighters during his tours as a soldier in Afghanistan.

The article offers information on how Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country's women in all government and private universities.

The article presents the U.S. forces has abandoned the sprawling Bagram Air Base, the hub of the 20-year American war effort in Afghanistan and Taliban fighters swept into the base and freed thousands of prisoners including senior Taliban and A1 Qaeda figures from a prison complex at Bagram.

The article focuses on roughly a thousand families called the low-slung mud-walled neighborhood of Firqa home and some moved in during the 1990s civil war, while others were provided housing under the previous government.

The article offers information on the position of U.S. in Afghanistan war. Topics discussed include starting of the war due to opium, corruption and support provided to Taliban by Pakistan, confusion in U.S. President Donald Trump regarding winning of war in Afghanistan; and views of Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, former director of the spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence, on the inability in the U.S. troops to win in Afghanistan.

The article focuses on release of the tribal leader, Haji Bashir Noorzai, by the United States in exchange of release of an American engineer, Mark R. Frerichs by Taliban.

The article reports on the increasing threat posed by the Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in November 2021. An ambush attack of the ISIS-K against a Taliban unit left fighter Aref Mohammad disabled. The ISIS is believed to have maintained a presence in Jalalabad since 2015. At least 90 people were killed and hundreds were wounded by the suicide bombings launched in key cities that target Taliban units and Shiite minorities.

The article reports on the rejection of several Afghans who want to be admitted in the U.S. after the resumption of power of the Taliban in Afghanistan despite helping the U.S. in its 20-year war in their country. The reasons behind their rejection include their records of violent crimes and links to Islamist militants. Also cited are the conditions of the temporary admission of the flagged Afghans in Kosovo.

The article reports on the possible money crisis facing Afghanistan under the Taliban rule as of September 2021 due to factors like halt of foreign aid, sharp hike in prices, the devaluation of the Afghani currency, and the freeze of the country's 9.4 billion dollar reserves. Also cited are how the Taliban regained power and the move by financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to stop transacting with the Afghan government under the Taliban.

The article reports on the efforts by the Taliban to establish a government following their swift return to power in Afghanistan as of September 2021. Topics include the move by the insurgents to appoint Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada as the country's supreme leader, the economic crisis in the country like the worsening shortage of cash, and the challenge of gaining the trust of the Afghan public due to the harshness of the previous Taliban government.

The article reports on the need for the U.S. government and the Taliban to cooperate despite their enmity against each other to fight their common enemy, the Islamic State branch called ISIS-K. Also cited are the issue of whether the U.S. will release billions of dollars of frozen Afghan fund to the Taliban, and the move by the Taliban to seek diplomatic and economic support from the U.S. to effectively govern Afghanistan.

The article reports on the growing reports of detentions, disappearances and executions of officials at the hands of the Taliban, as of August 2021, despite the Taliban's vow of amnesty. Topics covered include the fear among Afghans, the political activists' concerns that several of their supporters are missing and the Taliban troops' aim to secure the files of Afghan intelligence officers and their informers and to obtain the means of tracking the telephone numbers of Afghan citizens.

An interview with Mathew Aikins, a contributing writer for the New York Times, on new Taliban rules in Afghanistan is presented. Topics discussed include low to mid level ministries of the Taliban government which mainly includes officials who served in republic before Taliban; views on girls education amongst Taliban's; and a division of power between Kandahar and Kabul.

The article presents the discussion on Taliban insurgents triumphantly walking into the country's capital, Kabul where family members separated by indiscriminate violence.

The article presents the discussion on issuing dozens of bans and decrees limiting the liberty of women. Topics include removing women from the upper levels of government administration and banning the girls from secondary education; and cab drivers being prohibited from picking up women not wearing hijabs and public parks being segregated by gender.

The article examines that Taliban forced a longtime war correspondent to publicly retract some of her articles telling her that she would go to jail if she did not, she said, in the latest crackdown on press freedom in Afghanistan.

The article reports on the release by the Taliban government of Afghanistan of five British citizens who were held in custody due to alleged violation of Afghan laws and traditions.

The article discusses how Taliban fighters are strengthening their position in Afghanistan amid waning U.S. presence. President Donald Trump has lamented that the U.S. was losing its 16-year war in Afghanistan, and threatened to fire the American generals in charge. The U.S. has reportedly taken out Iran's chief enemies on two of its borders.

The article reports that the government of Saudi Arabia is funding Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Topics discussed include the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia's funding of Pakistan's promotion of the Taliban and the contradiction over Saudi Arabia's actions towards the Taliban including mediating a peace effort as a way for the country to further their own strategic interests.

The article focuses on thousands of Afghans had piled into buses and set out down the country's once perilous highways bound for relatives they had not seen in years.

The article reports on the Taliban commander's sneakers had soaked through from the melting snow, but that was the least of his problems, and it was avalanche season in the Salang Pass, a rugged cut of switchback roads that gash through the Hindu Kush mountains in nonhero Afghanistan.

The article focuses on Taliban Renege on Pledge to Reopen Schools for Over a Million Girls.

The article reports on the three Afghan aviators served in the elite Special Mission Wing of the Afghan Air Force, and Trained by Americans to fight the Taliban from the air, they were some of the Afghan military's most elite troop.

The article discusses the deployment, suffering and December 21, 2012 suicide of U.S. Navy SEAL (Sea, Air, Land Team) commander of Team 4 Job W. Price in Afghanistan, including in regard to difficulties in fighting the militant group the Taliban. The deaths of U.S. SEALs under Price's command in the Afghan War, including of Petty Officer Second Class Matthew G. Kantor, are discussed.

The article focuses on Kabul fell to the Taliban last August, Khyal Mohammad Ghayoor received a call from a stranger who identified himself only by the dual honorifics, Hajji Sahib, which roughly translates to a distinguished man who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca.

The article presents information related to the new generation of Pakistan's Islamic militants who are initiating jihad in Afghanistan, and are breaking with senior mullahs in Pakistan. The article makes specific reference to the division in the pro-Taliban and fundamentalist political outfit Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam headed by Maulana Fazlur Rehman. During the past years, Rehman has tried to disassociate himself from the new generation of Taliban forces.

Reports on the arrest of two suspected Taliban commanders, Mullah Naqvi and Mullah Qayum, in Afghanistan.