In the five years since the chaotic US withdrawal, Afghanistan has become home to one of the world’s worst human rights and humanitarian emergencies.

New raids by U.S. heavy bombers hit Taliban forces in coordination with Northern Alliance commanders Sunday as the opposition said a fresh offensive was in the works. Four major waves of strikes by ...

A CNN reporter who was covering the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan referred to soldiers chanting “death to America” as seemingly “friendly.” CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward was ...

(CNN) — Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued a draconian decree that makes sodomy punishable by death and allows men to beat their wives so long as they don’t break bones or leave visible, ...

Five years of Taliban rule, what has changed? On the fifth anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan, Isobel Yeung reports on what life is like for women and children. New figures from Save the ...

Here is a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

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