In a roughly 30-minute phone call Sunday afternoon, President Biden delivered difficult news to the families of three Americans held by the Taliban. He did not have a deal with the Taliban to free ...

KABUL, Afghanistan--Noura’s determination to play sports was so great that she defied her family’s opposition for years. Beatings from her mother and jeers from her neighbors never stopped her ...

Americans are funding the Taliban because tax dollars sent abroad as foreign aid is ending up in the hands of the Islamic terror group, a Republican congressman said ...

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Men praying on a small patch of grass last year in Shagai, in Afghanistan’s Bakwa District. The district became a booming hub of production and trade for opium, heroin and methamphetamines.