The Americans For Health Freedom founder Mary Talley Bowden also raised concerns about “conflicts of interest” within the ...

Credit: MFA Iran The Taliban leadership has not been able to end its isolation since seizing power in Afghanistan during the summer of 2021. With international sanctions, frozen assets, and no ...

The Taliban declared dissent unacceptable after returning to power nearly four years ago. Since then, it has detained, tortured, or forced into exile secular opponents, journalists, and human ...

“Condoms,” Phillip said, referencing the White House’s claim that the U.S. was about to spend $50 million on condoms in Gaza. “We will spare you the illustration for that one,” she added.

In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the Trump administration, appearing to sense an opening to re-establish ...

The Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place.

On 1 March 2025, after his first Cabinet meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump said the Taliban should return the equipment the U.S. abandoned in Afghanistan as it withdrew in August 2021.

Then again, perhaps it wasn't the Taliban; we're also hearing that the condoms were actually for Palestinians in Gaza instead. But that, too, is problematic, given Hamas' past use of condoms to ...

Shipping containers, known as TEUs, or Twenty-Foot Equivalents, each hold 10 pallets — or 320,000 condoms. If you have 1.85 billion condoms, you’d have nearly 5,800 shipping containers to move.

Most current Taliban officials aren’t subject to U.S. or U.N. sanctions and those that are routinely are granted waivers to travel – with foreign partners often covering the costs. As part of ...

Van Drew highlighted several expenditures he deemed unnecessary, including $15 million for condoms to the Taliban, $2 million for LGBTQ activism in Guatemala, $1.5 million for DEI initiatives in ...

Fight grows between Taliban chief and powerful Haqqani network, Qatar delegation…, tension on the rise One major reason behind the move is the ongoing internal power struggle between the Haqqani ...