The Taliban’s acting minister of commerce and trade, Haji Nooruddin Azizi, showed up at the Astana International Forum on May 30, bringing a message that Afghanistan is open for business. His pitch ...

Elon Musk exits the Trump administration, leaving a legacy of transparency and taxpayer savings through the Department of ...

CNN anchor Abby Phillip ridiculed Donald Trump‘s penchant for lies on Tuesday night, listing off nearly 100 of his lies to mark his 100th day in office. Phillip opened Tuesday’s NewsNight ...

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 said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place. Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking ...

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump ...

The ongoing power struggle between the Kandahari and Kabuli factions of the Taliban has garnered significant attention in post-Soviet media spaces. This internal conflict, which could potentially ...

USAID sent $15 million to the Taliban for condoms -- a bizarre decision, since the Taliban has outlawed all contraception. Then again, perhaps it wasn't the Taliban; we're also hearing that the ...

USAID has also spent millions supplying condoms to the Taliban, says Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee, lambasting his “Democrat colleagues that are ...

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 ...