Russia's recent decision to remove the Afghan Taliban from its terrorist list has sent ripples across the geopolitical ...

Nancy A. Youssef is a national security correspondent whose reporting has focused largely on the U.S. military and the Arab world.

Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, covering major issues and developments around the world.

Nearly a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin called Afghanistan’s Taliban an “ally” in countering terrorism, Moscow lifted a two-decade-old ban on the group, aiming to bolster ties with Kabul ...

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A realignment inside the Taliban, an unspoken preference for U.S. partnership and a recognition that isolation is a dead end ...

Russian law still states that Taliban members must be arrested if they enter the country, but "no Taliban member has been ...

Officials say Pakistan’s deputy prime minister is traveling to Afghanistan on the weekend at the invitation of Kabul to discuss a range of issues.

Pakistan has expelled over 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said on Friday, as part of a repatriation drive ahead of the April 30 deadline.

Russia’s Supreme Court lifted a ban on the Taliban, the latest step in growing relations between Moscow and the Islamist ...

Such measures have isolated the Taliban on the world stage, although the government has established diplomatic ties with ...

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday removed the Taliban's designation as a "terrorist organisation", a symbolic gesture aimed ...