As director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi has the unenviable task of raising revenue for the government of a wretchedly poor, isolated nation.

Pakistan is witnessing a sharp increase in terrorism-related deaths, with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) emerging as one of the deadliest groups globally, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2025 ...

The BBC spent the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what life is like under the Taliban government since it took power in 2021 Taliban decrees seek to silence women in public ...

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actingAfghanistan’s Taliban Thursday called on neighbors Pakistan and Iran to be patient with Afghan refugees and follow an organized process for their return, considering Afghanistan’s ...

Mohammad Sharifullah has confessed to scouting out the route to the airport, where the suicide bomber later detonated his device among packed crowds trying to flee days after the Taliban seized ...

We sat in Parliament and watched in horror as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021. Since then, the situation for women and girls there has deteriorated dramatically. They have been ...

(Hamid Mohammadi via Wikimedia under CC BY-SA 4.0) On February 18, 2025, various factions of the anti-Taliban resistance wrapped up the fifth Vienna Process Conference for a Democratic Afghanistan, ...

The Doha Agreement between the Taliban and the United States was signed on Saturday, February 29, 2020. I was supposed to be off that day, but I came to work anyway. How could I stay at home?

Afghanistan’s Taliban has rejected claims made by US President Donald Trump that China holds control over Bagram Airfield, a crucial US-operated military base in Afghanistan. The sprawling Air Base in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Monster Hunter Wilds is a bold and bustling continuation of its predecessor’s approach to streamlining the once-niche series. By stripping away some of the more frustrating elements of the past ...