The Taliban is also facing growing security challenges from within its own ranks and a cluster of armed resistance forces. Relations with its former patron, Pakistan, have completely broken down, with the country’s defence minister declaring an “ open war ” on the group earlier this year.

He is, even by Taliban standards, extraordinarily extreme. Chart: The Economist Stability after decades of war is not nothing. But Mr Akhundzada’s government does not offer the country’s fast-growing population of 45m—almost two-thirds of whom were not yet born in 2001—anything that remotely resembles a path to prosperity.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are marking five years since regaining power. Some Kabul residents feel safer but urge leaders to focus on jobs and education.

In the five years since the chaotic US withdrawal, Afghanistan has become home to one of the world’s worst human rights and humanitarian emergencies.

In an interview, Afghanistan’s foreign minister called on the U.S. to reopen its embassy and invest in the country — a near-impossible sell for now, analysts and former diplomats say. By Elian Peltier Elian Peltier, the Times’s Afghanistan bureau ...

Jige Mughalgai, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's Taliban government vowed Tuesday to "respond appropriately" to overnight border strikes it blamed on Pakistan that killed 10 people, as tension between the neighbors soared following a suicide bombing in ...

What might feel like an adventurous trip to an underexplored country can turn out to be an unintentional investment in the oppression of the Afghan people. A tour agency from Afghanistan has gone viral for producing darkly comic promotional videos that ...

Après cinq ans de retour au pouvoir, les talibans ont renforcé leur emprise sur l'Afghanistan, mais la résistance persiste.

Afghanistan is in the midst of a communications blackout, just weeks after Taliban authorities began severing fiber optic connections in multiple provinces, in what appears to be the Islamist regime's latest crackdown. "Afghanistan is now in the midst of a ...