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The communist regime in China will use bribery and corruption to get what it needs from Afghanistan, as ...

Images showing a person suspended from a helicopter over Afghanistan spread widely on social media despite efforts by fact-checkers to correct false claims about it purportedly showing a Taliban execution. Republican members of Congress, including Sen. Te

"Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list," said one defense official.

After the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, it is worth looking at the political map of the region. Afghanistan's neighbors: India, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
The Taliban leadership rejects the possibility of an invasion of the countries of Central Asia. However,

An Afghan guard was killed at Kabul's airport Monday, as efforts to evacuate more people from the country picked up.

A core point of the troop withdrawal deal Washington signed with the Taliban last year was that they will not allow militant groups to operate out of Afghanistan.

Heroin production has boomed in Afghanistan in recent years, helping fund the Taliban, and experts say they will struggle to wean themselves off the profitable trade despite their promise to do so.Speaking Tuesday at a first press conference since taking

The Taliban have reached Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, and say they is awaiting a peaceful transfer of power.Earlier Sunday the Taliban took over Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province and the last major city outside the capital to have been under g

The Taliban expects a peaceful transition of power in the next few days, a spokesman said on Sunday, as the insurgents reached Afghanistan's capital Kabul with little resistance.

CIA Director William Burns said last week that the Taliban is engaged in offensive operations across Afghanistan and that the group is probably in its best military position in decades.

More than a thousand Afghan National Army soldiers scarpered over a bridge in the northern province of Badkhshan following clashes with the resurgent jihadists on Sunday. Afghan troops are filmed laying down arms as US general overseeing NATO exit says he's shocked by how quickly they've