Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 2002, just months after the fall of the Taliban regime, Saad Mohseni launched Radio Free Afghanistan, a fledgling attempt to ...

Last year was actually one of increased isolation, regional tensions, and strategic failure.

The Taliban suspended internet services across Afghanistan on Monday, cutting off millions of people from the outside world. Afghan media reported that the restriction was in line with the Taliban ...

The Taliban's Prime Minister, Mohammad Hassan Akhund, vowed on Saturday that any Afghans who fled the country after the collapse of the Western-backed government are welcome to return without fear of ...

Russia has become the first country in the world to grant official recognition to the Taliban government in Afghanistan, with experts monitoring the situation warning other countries like China could ...

A top Taliban official said on Saturday that all Afghans who fled the country after the collapse of the former Western-backed government are free to return home, promising they would not be harmed if ...

Four young Afghan men were given a Taliban warning for walking the streets dressed as Thomas Shelby from the TV hit show Peaky Blinders.

Three years after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, some five million people have left the country, including many of the country’s scientists. Nature spoke to a handful of these refugee ...

In 2016, moments after speaking on a TV interview about the dangers of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Zia Danesh’s car was bombed on his way home. The explosion, a targeted suicide attack, killed his ...

Dmitry Zhirnov, left, Russia's ambassador to Afghanistan, meeting with Amir Khan Muttaqi, Afghanistan's Foreign Minister in Kabul in April, 2025 [Handout/Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs via ...

Russia became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan on Thursday, according to local media, with the Taliban flag being raised at the Afghan embassy in Moscow.