KABUL, Afghanistan -- After Humaira's beauty salon was shut by the Taliban, she hid her cans of hairspray, her portraits of coiffured women and her cracked hair dryer. A day after the Islamic militia ...

Family of Barbie, 76, and Peter Reynolds, 80, express "immense joy" as couple arrive in Qatar after being detained in Afghanistan.

The planned US withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of 2014 may ultimately depend on negotiations with the Taliban. For the moment, the US forces and the Karzai government are focused on ...

The Taliban on Sunday released a US citizen from prison in Afghanistan, weeks after the group said it had reached a prisoner exchange deal with American envoys as part of efforts to normalise ties ...