Back in 2000, following a meeting with Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban envoy to Pakistan, Vijay K Nambiar, India’s High Commissioner to Islamabad at the time, assessed the chances of engagement ...

While the Taliban hope for a "new chapter" in relations with the United States under Donald Trump, analysts say that will depend on whether Afghan leaders uphold their promises. Roshan Noorzai has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the Taliban took control of Kabul in 2021, Pakistan’s then-prime minister Imran Khan lauded ...

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The Doha Agreement, signed in February 2020 by Trump and representatives of the Taliban, required U.S. troops to leave the country by May 2021. There was also a more critical and elemental ...

WASHINGTON—A U.S. push to reach a prisoner-swap deal with the Taliban is in danger of collapsing over President Biden’s insistence that the trade include an American who disappeared in ...

India's foreign secretary Vikram Misri met acting Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift ...

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 ...

Cam’ron is unleashing on Jim Jones in an explosive rant, blasting him as a “fan” who “begged” to get involved before Dipset. During the conversation with Justin Laboy, Jones claimed ...

WASHINGTON —President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with the families of three Americans detained in Afghanistan by its Taliban rulers since 2022, and emphasized his commitment to bringing home ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai appealed to Muslim leaders on Sunday to champion women and girls’ education despite bans imposed by the Afghan Taliban government that the UN says are ...

Marking the highest-ranking outreach with the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri on Wednesday (January 8, 2025) met with the Taliban’s ‘Foreign Minister’ Mawlawi ...