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Real life in Afghanistan – as told by a Taliban commander
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJamila Afghani, one of Afghanistan’s top women’s-rights activists, credits her success to having had...
Afghan mine-clearer killed by Taliban after it sees him in Emmy-winning film
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAn Afghan contractor who worked for the US military was killed by the Taliban after appearing in an...
Russia plans to remove Taliban from banned organizations list
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn a move signaling a potential shift in policy, the Russian Foreign and Justice Ministries have...
Russian government proposes to remove Taliban from list of terrorist organizations
Kyiv Independent via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAccording to Russian state-controlled news agency TASS, the step would pave the way for Russia to...
Russia invites Afghanistan's Taliban to major economic forum
Reuters· 3 days agoRussia has invited Afghanistan's Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to...
A group of armed men burns a girls' school in northwest Pakistan, in third such attack this month
San Francisco Chronicle· 13 hours agoA group of armed men used kerosene to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said Wednesday ...
A Taliban revenge killing prompts questions, removal of an acclaimed documentary
Stars and Stripes· 7 days agoOn a winter day not long ago, an Afghan man — a 21-year-old who’d once dazzled U.S. Special Forces...
7 Pakistani soldiers, 23 militants killed in separate shootouts during raids along the Afghan border
Houston Chronicle· 3 days agoPakistan's security forces were conducting several raids in the country's volatile northwest, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, when shootouts ensued leaving seven ...
China pressures Afghanistan to stop attacks on its interests in Pakistan
South China Morning Post· 7 days agoBeijing effectively recognised the Taliban regime by accepting the diplomatic credentials of its...
What it's like backpacking in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan as an American
Newsweek· 4 days agoThe Taliban are a militant group that ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s and early 2000s and...