3 days ago · A Taliban ambassador on Monday warned the new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio against making threats after saying he would place bounties on Afghanistan’s rulers for their continued detention of U.S. nationals. A prisoner swap between the U.S. and Afghanistan last week freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure, Khan Muhammad.

4 days ago · Iran doesn’t formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan, which seized power in 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew from the country following two decades of war. But Tehran maintains political and economic ties with Kabul and has allowed the Taliban to manage Afghanistan’s embassy in Iran’s capital.

Jan 23, 2025 · THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor announced on Thursday he had requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials for the repression of women.. Karim Khan said in a statement he asked judges to approve warrants for the group’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhunzada, and the head of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, Abdul Hakim ...

3 days ago · A Taliban ambassador is warning new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio against making threats after he said he would place bounties on Afghanistan’s rulers for their continued detention of U.S ...

Dec 28, 2024 · Afghan Taliban forces have targeted “several points” in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense said, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardments inside the...

Jan 24, 2025 · Stay on top of Taliban latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.

Jan 21, 2025 · In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...

Dec 11, 2024 · The minister for refugees in Afghanistan's Taliban government was killed in an explosion Wednesday at the ministry's headquarters in the capital Kabul, multiple senior officials with Taliban...

Jan 14, 2025 · Two Americans held by the Taliban were exchanged for an Afghan imprisoned in the US on narco-terrorism charges. Last week, India’s top diplomat met a senior Taliban minister, the...

Jan 21, 2025 · Corbett, who had lived in Afghanistan with his family at the time of the 2021 collapse of the U.S.-backed government, was detained by the Taliban in August 2022 while on a business trip.