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Faye Hall, who has been released from Taliban custody and is with Qatari diplomats, is seen in Kabul, Afghanistan March 29, 2025.

Taliban release detained US citizen Faye Hall

At the Torkham border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Afghan girls weave through parked trucks, carrying contraband items.

‘With frail bodies and empty stomachs’: Afghan children risk lives at Torkham border

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

A woman poses next to an Iranian flag and photo of the Persian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, during a protest on the day of the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany February 17, 2023.

The US must let Iranians choose their own fate, not dictate their future

By AIDIN PANAHI

A Taliban soldier enters a helicopter at Bagram Air Base in Parwan, Afghanistan, September 23, 2021. Picture taken September 23, 2021.

Trump: ‘We were going to keep Bagram, not because of Afghanistan but because of China’

By ARSHAD MEHMOUD/THE MEDIA LINE

ISIS militants

ISIS-K member charged with 2021 bombing, US State Dept. says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Firefighters work at the scene where a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker drove a car into a crowd, in what the Bavarian Premier Markus Soeder said was probably an attack, in Munich, Germany, February 13, 2025.

Afghan national confesses to Munich car ramming that injured 36, prosecutor says

By REUTERS

Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, who is reported to have fled to Dubai after criticising the education ban and the Taliban’s leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada.

Taliban minister flees after condemning ban on women's education

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

SYRIAN FOREIGN Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani (right) attends a news conference with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Damascus last week. The new Syrian leaders have not fully adopted the Afghan model, though social media debates about their past still continue,

HTS are aiming to create Taliban-style Sharia government

By SALEM ALKETBI

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul, Afghanistan January 26, 2025.

Taliban and Iran's top diplomats meet to tackle migrants, water rights, and security

A day after U.S. forces completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, refugees board a bus taking them to a processing center upon their arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, US, September 1, 2021.

Trump aid freeze strands Afghan visa holders in Albania

By REUTERS

ICC PROSECUTOR Karim Khan speaks during an interview in The Hague, earlier this year.

Taliban hits out at ICC over Khan's arrest warrant requests

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in what is believed to be a 1990 passport photo. Released by the Taliban, this is the only photo of Akhundzada in circulation, and has never been independently verified as authentic.

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan

By REUTERS

Hosna Salehi, whose family runs a charity called the House of Kindness, writes on a white board as she teaches children inside a classroom in Herat, Afghanistan, October 27, 2024.

Taliban deputy foreign minister calls for girls' high schools to open

By REUTERS

Pete Hegseth has been tapped by President-elect Trump to serve as his secretary of defense.

Pete Hegseth, in Senate confirmation hearing, blames Oct. 7 on US withdrawal from Afghanistan

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan speaks at the World's Children's Prize ceremony in Mariefred, Sweden

Malala Yousafzai urges Muslim leaders to back gender apartheid legal push

By REUTERS

Taliban soldiers celebrate on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023.

Taliban targets 'several points' in Pakistan in retaliation for airstrikes - Afghan Def. Min.

By REUTERS

TALIBAN FORCES patrol in front of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 2

Taliban purge academics, reshape education with 'extremist agenda'

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE

Hosna Salehi, whose family runs a charity called the House of Kindness, writes on a white board as she teaches children inside a classroom in Herat, Afghanistan, October 27, 2024.

'Repressive and discriminatory': Int'l envoys urge Taliban to reverse policies excluding women

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF