The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...

Since the Taliban's return in August 2021, Afghan women's basic freedoms have been systematically curtailed, transforming them into privileges. Girls are barred from secondary education and ...

House Republicans on Monday released the results of a sweeping three-year investigation they say is the most detailed public accounting yet of the Biden administration's chaotic withdrawal from ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo on Tuesday announcing a review of the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan “to ensure that accountability for this event is met.” Hegseth did not ...

Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers.

The Defense Department accidentally reposted over one thousand photos from the Afghanistan War that had been taken offline in 2021 to hide the identity of Afghans working with U.S. troops. The photos, ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened Afghanistan, which is governed by the Taliban, if Bagram Air Base isn’t returned to the United States. "If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to ...

The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...

Advocates fear for their rights in education. Over one month into Taliban control of Afghanistan, fears for women's and girl's rights and education have only grown -- fueled further Tuesday by a top ...

Congress is now one step closer to ensuring U.S. taxpayer dollars don't end up in Taliban coffers.

The United States' 20-year attempt to stand up democracy in Afghanistan descended into a cesspool of corruption and squandered as much as $29.2 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in pursuit of ...