The Latest Breaking News from Taliban

Obaidullah was stuck on his own in Strasbourg ‘unhappy and scared’ for a year following the Kabul airport bombing last August.

The Taliban-appointed foreign minister has acknowledged that the former insurgents’ year-old government in Afghanistan remains isolated

In defiance of the Taliban's ban on education for girls, locals in one province of Afghanistan start reopening high schools.

Having paid smugglers to organise a dangerous escape, those fleeing the Taliban face persistent hostility

The rights group says the Taliban has failed to protect Hazaras and other at-risk communities.

Authorities in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktia said girls' high schools had opened in recent days, though the move had not been officially approved.

Human Rights Watch says Taliban is failing to protect Shia minority from violent attacks on mosques, schools and workplaces

Russia is one of the few countries to have maintained an embassy in Kabul after the Taliban took over more than a year ago.

A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one civilian, a local police official and a Russian state news agency said. It was unclear if the attacker detonated the explosives himself or whether…

The death toll is expected to rise, say officials

Two embassy staff among six dead after suicide bomber detonates explosives near the embassy’s entrance.