The Latest Breaking News from Taliban

After a leak at the Ministry of Defence, officials faced a race to keep up to 100,000 Afghans from the Taliban’s clutches – with two years of court fights and rescue plans projected to cost billions, all hidden from MPs and the public. Now, after the lifting of an unprecedented…

More than 16,000 Afghans were secretly brought to the UK in the largest covert peacetime evacuation after the MoD put them in danger of being targeted by the Taliban. Social affairs correspondent Holly Bancroft reports

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan’s supreme court, who have limited girls' education and banned women's voices from being heard in public.

Ministry of Defence ordered to publish ‘transparent and accurate’ information about review of Afghan commando cases

The Afghan group rejects the charges as ‘baseless rhetoric’, saying that it does not recognise the international court.

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for persecuting women and girls.

Taliban have imposed harsh measures that range from banning women from public places to girls from attending school beyond the sixth grade

Lahore lion attack sparks crackdown, with authorities raiding breeding farms and making arrests

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution over U.S. objections calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse their worsening oppression of women and girls and eliminate all terrorist organizations