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Byline: Shayna Jacobs NEW YORK - A federal judge is in the rare position of having to decide whether to grant immunity under military law to a Taliban commander facing [...]

Byline: Pamela Constable KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Before Sept. 11, 2001, this remote, sand-swept border city in southwestern Afghanistan was the seat of power of the Taliban, the militant Islamic regime [...]

Byline: Haq Nawaz Khan PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The Taliban governor of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province was killed in a blast Thursday, according to the Taliban spokesman. 'With a heavy heart, [...]

Byline: Pamela Constable KABUL, Afghanistan - A top leader of the Pakistani Taliban militia was reported killed Sunday in southeastern Afghanistan, potentially dealing a serious blow to peace talks being [...]

Byline: FAZEL RAHMAN FAIZI; ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes and killing at [...]

Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan MAIMANA, Afghanistan - By all accounts, Makhdoom Alam was a Taliban stalwart. The 45-year-old ethnic Uzbek commander fought U.S. and Afghan forces for two decades and was [...]

The man, Haji Najibullah, was charged last year with kidnapping an American journalist and two Afghan nationals months after the deadly assault. On a June day in 2008, three U.S. [...]

Byline: Shayna Jacobs NEW YORK - An alleged Taliban commander who was previously charged in the 2008 kidnapping of journalist David Rohde is now facing charges related to attacks on [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung Abdul Ghani Baradar, deputy prime minister in the Taliban's interim government, took to the airwaves Wednesday to assure his compatriots that he is alive and well, and [...]

Many of the acting cabinet ministers appointed Tuesday have played similar roles within the Taliban for years, but there were some surprises. The Taliban formally declared a caretaker government on [...]

Dozens of women gathered on the streets of Herat, a city in western Afghanistan, on Thursday, protesting against the Taliban and demanding more rights and inclusion in a new future [...]

Cooperation with the group in fighting an Islamic State affiliate is ''possible,'' the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. WASHINGTON -- Just over a day after the last [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger With the Taliban now in control of Afghanistan, the names and faces of some of its key players - notably Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group's day-to-day leader, [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett A Taliban spokesman said there was 'no proof' that Osama bin Laden was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Bin Laden's well documented role as [...]

The meetings are the highest-level in-person talks between a Biden administration official and Afghanistan's new leadership. WASHINGTON -- The C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, traveled to Kabul for talks with [...]

Byline: John Hudson WASHINGTON - CIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting in Kabul on Monday with the Taliban's de facto leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in the highest-level [...]

Byline: Ruby Mellen With Afghanistan under Taliban control, questions are swirling over how the group may govern after being out of power since 2001. The Islamist militant organization rapidly overran [...]

In Afghanistan, the footwear of choice among Taliban fighters is a pair of white high-top sneakers with green-and-yellow trim. They're called Cheetahs, they are produced by the Pakistani company Servis [...]

Another influential family was split by the war when a retired province police chief defected to the insurgency. His son remains deputy governor. KABUL, Afghanistan -- As a onetime police [...]

Byline: Anne Gearan President Trump said Tuesday that he had spoken with the senior Taliban leader, a phone conversation that is apparently the first direct verbal communication between a U.S. [...]

President Trump said Thursday that he had tried to stop the release of John Walker Lindh, known widely as the ''American Taliban,'' from an Indiana prison, but that there was [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner John Walker Lindh, the first person to be convicted of a crime in the 'War on Terror,' was set to leave prison a free man Thursday after [...]

Byline: Alex Horton and Michael Brice-Saddler John Walker Lindh's eyes, dark and wild, were ubiquitous across magazine covers and cable news channels, alongside militants in Afghanistan, after he was captured [...]

DOHA, Qatar -- In a sign that the Taliban see a peace deal with the United States as imminent, one of their top leaders released a rare audio message on [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban's deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrived in Qatar on Sunday, officials said, for what could be the highest-level negotiations yet between the insurgents and [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A longtime deputy in the Taliban who was arrested in a joint intelligence raid by American and Pakistani agents eight years ago has been freed, the insurgent [...]

WASHINGTON -- Taking a page from Vietnam War propaganda, the American military in Afghanistan has been widely publicizing body counts of Taliban and Islamic State fighters killed in battle. Officials [...]

KARACHI, Pakistan -- Pakistan's Taliban has named as its new leader, a religious scholar known for running brutal extortion rackets and opposing polio vaccination campaigns, promoting violence against health workers [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- An American drone strike killed the leader of the Pakistani Taliban in a border region of Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said on Thursday. Pakistani intelligence officials said the [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Pakistani Taliban have confirmed the death of their deputy commander in an American drone strike in Afghanistan last week. The commander's death is a blow to [...]