The Taliban leader says executions are part of Islam. That's after rights groups and the U.N. condemned the public executions of four men days earlier after they were convicted of murder.

Secretary Kristi Noem has stripped protections from deportation for Afghans and Cameroonians in the U.S., calling into ...

President Donald Trump has expressed interest in recovering a military base in Afghanistan ceded by the United States when ...

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. The son of nomadic sheep farmers and a member of Turkey’s ethnic Kurdish minority, Hamdi Ulukaya was the first in his family to go to college ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has reversed cuts in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained them ...

A new Army facility in Natick has been named for U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti, who made the ultimate ...

Pakistan's deportation of Afghan migrants is drawing global condemnation, as rights groups warn of grave dangers for ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada stated that Afghanistan no longer requires Western laws. He expressed strong disapproval of the West, arguing that democracy has come to an end in Afghanistan.

The Taliban leader said Sunday there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia laws are in effect. Hibatullah Akhundzada made the comments in a ...

An American woman who has been held by the Taliban in Afghanistan has been freed, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said Saturday. “American citizen Faye Hall ...