The Afghan Taliban interim administration said it would not return leftover arms to the US because they are now state assets of Afghanistan.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson says arms assets of Afghanistan, state does not give away assets to others - Anadolu Ajansı

Donald Trump could once again turn to his ally Zalmay Khalilzad, the chief architect of the Doha Deal, as his Afghanistan go-between. Some experts fear that would be a mistake, as Arpan Rai reports

Hassan Abbas, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. and author of the “Return of the Taliban,” said Akhundzada stressed the importance of unity from a religious perspective by citing verses from the Quran.

A Georgia man held by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers since December 2022 was on his way back to the US Thursday after Trump administration negotiators secured his freedom.

The Taliban has admitted that it has two American prisoners, whose freedom it will only grant in return for the release of “ Osama Bin Laden ’s special aide”, who is in Guantánamo Bay, local media reported.

The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen detained in Afghanistan for over two years following direct talks between U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler and Taliban officials in Kabul, a source briefed on the release told Reuters.

WASHINGTON — An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released by the Taliban in a deal with the Trump administration ...