The Taliban's leader said there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as there are sharia laws.

The Taliban leader says there is no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws ...

Two other Americans, Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, were released from Afghanistan this year in a deal struck during the ...

While Pakistan is bearing the brunt of terrorist attacks emanating from Afghanistan, the threat is wider. Regional and global ...

And relieved,” Dennis Fitzpatrick told CNN. Glezmann was detained by the Taliban in December 2022, some 16 months after the ...

An American woman detained since February 2025 in Afghanistan by the Taliban was reportedly released Thursday. “American ...

Former U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad says the Taliban's decision to release American George Glezmann was "a goodwill gesture" ...

Hassan Abbas, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. and author of the “Return of the Taliban,” ...

The US's former envoy to Kabul said that Ms Hall is now in the care of Qatari officials and would "soon be heading home".

An American citizen who has spent more than two years in detention in Afghanistan was released on Thursday, and is now on his way to the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.