3 days ago · Iran doesn’t formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan, which seized power in 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew from the country following two decades of war. But Tehran maintains political and economic ties with Kabul and has allowed the Taliban to manage Afghanistan’s embassy in Iran’s capital.

2 days ago · A Taliban ambassador on Monday warned the new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio against making threats after saying he would place bounties on Afghanistan’s rulers for their continued detention of U.S. nationals. A prisoner swap between the U.S. and Afghanistan last week freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure, Khan Muhammad.

2 days ago · A Taliban ambassador is warning new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio against making threats after he said he would place bounties on Afghanistan’s rulers for their continued detention of U.S ...

Dec 28, 2024 · Afghan Taliban forces have targeted “several points” in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense said, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardments inside the...

Jan 21, 2025 · Khan Mohammed, center, is embraced in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, after his release as part of a prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. Mohammed, who had been sentenced in California to two terms of life imprisonment in 2008 on drug trafficking and terrorism charges, was freed in exchange for ...

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Jan 21, 2025 · In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...

Jan 14, 2025 · Two Americans held by the Taliban were exchanged for an Afghan imprisoned in the US on narco-terrorism charges. Last week, India’s top diplomat met a senior Taliban minister, the...

Aug 1, 2023 · Taliban leaders have met officials from the United States in Qatar for the first time since their return to power in Afghanistan two years ago.

Dec 11, 2024 · Afghanistan's Taliban government announced the release of 2 Americans in a prisoner exchange. Ryan Corbett's family says he's one of them. A senior Taliban figure says the group's leader...