The Latest Breaking News from Taliban

This is the extraordinary story of how Ryan Wesley Routh apparently messaged Afghan special forces hiding in Iran just three days before being arrested with an AK-47 at Trump’s Florida golf club. The UK is still dragging its feet over offering safe haven to these desperate men - paid and…

Markwayne Mullin stalls promotion of Lt Gen Christopher Donahue, photographed as last US soldier to leave

Gunman reportedly opened fire on Sufis participating in weekly ritual at local shrine

The Nobel Prize winner discusses her new documentary, Bread and Roses, and the Taliban’s escalating attacks

Made under dangerous conditions, this documentary charts how the lives of three women were turned upside down by Afghanistan’s overthrow in 2021

Bread & Roses exposes the realities faced by women in Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in 2021.

The Afghan footballer turned activist on the fight still to come for women in her home nation

The president-elect uses conditional grammar to craft self-fulfilling speculative historical fiction.

From Iraq to Afghanistan to the US, basic freedoms for women are being eroded as governments start rolling back existing laws.

Investigation: The UK trained and paid special forces to fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. As hundreds of these fighters live in danger while Britain delays decisions on whether to give them sanctuary, the UK’s adversaries are circling. Holly Bancroft, Fahim Abed, May Bulman and Jessica Purkiss report

Checking imported books, removing texts from libraries and distributing lists of banned titles -- Taliban authorities are working to remove "un-Islamic" and anti-government literature from circulation.