The daring jail break in Kandahar Province on Monday that freed about 500 fighters indicates that the Taliban remains influential in the south despite setbacks they have faced, and calls into question ...

Taliban insurgents in military uniform stormed an Afghan prison Monday, freeing hundreds of inmates after detonating a car bomb and killing four policemen in the country’s largest jailbreak in years.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan-- During the long Afghan winter, Taliban insurgents were apparently busy underground. The militants say they spent more than five months building a 1,050-foot tunnel to the main ...

A former Taliban commander has been sentenced in New York to 42 years in prison for crimes including the 2008 kidnapping of a ...

An elderly British couple who were imprisoned in one of the Taliban's most notorious prisons have revealed the horrific conditions inside, calling it 'the closest thing to Hell.' Peter Reynolds, 80, ...

The Taliban released another U.S. citizen from custody in Afghanistan on Sunday, as the internationally ostracized regime seeks to normalize relations with Washington. Subscribe to read this story ...

Haji Najibullah, a former Taliban commander, was sentenced by a New York court for his role in the abduction of an American ...

The Taliban stole a plane they couldn’t fly. In 1995, they forced down a Soviet Il-76 cargo aircraft in Kandahar and took its ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the ...