A million bounty was offered for Sirajuddin Haqqani, leader of the Haqqani network. For Taliban officials, this is a quid pro quo for the release of a US hostage, but according to some observers, ...

It is a significant move given that the Haqqani network is accused of carrying out deadly attacks in Afghanistan during the US-led war in the country.

The Taliban has admitted that it has two American prisoners, whose freedom it will only grant in return for the release of ...

The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani known for ...

Now interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani orchestrated a 2008 assault which resulted in 6 deaths, including that of a US ...

According to the UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2019, opium harvesting provided the equivalent of up to 119,000 full-time ...

The chief minister of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has said that negotiating with the Taliban-led Afghan government is necessary for establishing lasting peace in the region, as he offered ...

Bilateral relations between the Pakistani establishment and the Afghan Taliban have rapidly deteriorated in recent years, ...

Under the Taliban, Afghanistan is once again a magnet for militant groups. Pakistan bears the brunt of this fallout ...

The reality, according to some Taliban officials, is that the ultra-conservative clerics advising the country’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada are deeply sceptical of modern education for ...