TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Marin County, California man who became known as the "American Taliban" after his capture on an Afghanistan battlefield in late 2001 has been released from prison. John Walker ...

After 11 days in captivity, on Feb. 8, 2025, an investigator told him bluntly, “This will take a long time, and I don’t mean ...

Washington has held indirect talks with the Taliban over the possible transfer of five senior Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a U.S. soldier captured nearly five years ago, a ...

An elderly British couple who were imprisoned in one of the Taliban's most notorious prisons have revealed the horrific conditions inside, calling it 'the closest thing to Hell.' Peter Reynolds, 80, ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan-- During the long Afghan winter, Taliban insurgents were apparently busy underground. The militants say they spent more than five months building a 1,050-foot tunnel to the main ...

Pakistan freed the Afghan Taliban’s former deputy leader on Saturday after years of detention in a move that many officials in Islamabad and Kabul hope will aid Afghanistan’s struggling peace process.

A South Dakota deputy prison warden who helped provide security in Afghanistan will lead the Anamosa State Penitentiary where two inmates were accused of killing a correctional officer and a nurse ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - In an operation carried out with military-like precision, Taliban fighters disguised as police and armed with bombs broke 250 prisoners out of a Pakistan jail on ...

Taliban say 527 Afghan migrants were released from Pakistan prisons, as concerns grow over arrests, alleged abuses, and treatment of refugees.