Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalr...

The Taliban have ordered internet and mobile phone data services to be cut across Afghanistan, diplomatic and industry sources said on Tuesday, as residents and monitoring services reported no connectivity and disruption to flights and financial services.

This paper analyzes the relationship between the Taliban and violent jihadi extremist (VJE) organizations present and/or operating in Afghanistan. Jihadi relations are examined within the analytica...

'The Taliban’s vision of the future puts women in a cage... we can't be like this'