Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India and France share a “very special relationship,” calling France one of ...

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy presented a video simulation of the January 2025 DCA midair ...

Subhash K Jha revisits the 2003 drama, Escape From Taliban, in a new This Day That Year feature. A horrific claustrophobia ...

Assailants armed with guns and grenades have carried out nearly a dozen coordinated attacks across southern Pakistan.

At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, but to control them. But for Afghans, the war did not end; it only changed.

Top Afghan officials say they want two American detainees released “as soon as possible,” but the Trump administration says a third one should be included. By Elian Peltier and Adam Goldman Elian ...

The beginning of 2026 has been one of turmoil in the Middle East due to serious divisions inside the Taliban leadership, according to a recent BBC investigation. The report paints a picture that show ...

Last week, as the Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid triumphantly declared 2025 “a year of diplomatic success,” the claim was received with predictable laud from the movement’s echo chambers. But ...

Ikramuddin Saree, a former police commander in Afghanistan's Takhar and Baghlan provinces under the pre-Taliban republic, was shot dead on the evening of December 24 outside his office in Tehran.

Magnus Marsden has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The Taliban’s morality police recently summoned four young men in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan for ...

Since 2021, the Taliban has encouraged madrasa schools, raising concerns about religious indoctrination and the spread of extremism in Afghanistan. The madrasa-based education system has a long and ...

A rumor circulating online in December 2025 claimed that throughout 2025, and specifically on Dec. 8, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration sent $45 million in weekly cash payments to the ...