Myth No 7. Hostile Afghanistan presents Pakistan with two-front war scenario, simultaneously with India and Afghanistan. This is again a notion of Pakistan's strategic construct advocated by the ...

The United Nations in Afghanistan has called on the Islamic Emirate to take immediate action to end violence against women ...

Russia has been slowly building ties with the Islamic Emirate since it seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 but the IEA ...

Suhail Shaheen, head of the Islamic Emirate’s political office in Qatar, has strongly criticized the United Nations' decision ...

While Indian officials have yet to officially comment, the agency quoted sources in the Taliban "Foreign Ministry" as ...

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of Afghanistan, reaffirmed the country’s ...

Hibatullah Akhundzada became the supreme commander of the Taliban in May 2016, and is now leader of the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. In the 1980s, he participated in the Islamist ...

The Taliban will declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul, a Taliban official announced on Sunday. The official spoke under the condition of anonymity ...

They refer to themselves as the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the name they used when in power from 1996 until being overthrown in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Now, they have a ...

A political settlement in Afghanistan will require an agreement on regime type: electoral democracy versus emirate. What do the people prefer?

Central Asia has significant ethnic and religious minorities, and populations of Russian-speaking Slavs. Islamism threatens to upset that delicate balance—and with it, the élites who rule the ...