A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

and Donald Trump was officially back in the White House when Americans Ryan Corbett and William McKenty were handed over and on their way home early Tuesday, exchanged for Afghan Taliban member ...

Two Americans detained in Afghanistan were released in a prisoner exchange with the Taliban in the final hours ... said it was William McKenty, 69. 'Sunshine':3 Israeli hostages are free after ...

KABUL, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister called on his senior leadership to open schools for Afghan girls, among the strongest public rebukes of a policy that has ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans ... identified the second American released as William McKenty, though no other details ...

The Taliban government announced on Tuesday the release by the United States of an Afghan prisoner in exchange for US detainees, saying the deal was brokered by Qatar. "An Afghan fighter Khan ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans ... Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, was brokered by Joe Biden ‘s administration ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban government announced on Tuesday the release of two Americans in a prisoner exchange. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry in Kabul did not name the two U.S ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

A senior Taliban official has called for the reversal of the group's controversial ban on education for Afghan women and girls, describing the policy as unjust and un-Islamic. Sher Abbas Stanikzai ...