In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: ...

Sepahizada reached out to a former administrator he knew with U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, who worked through back channels to get his brother released. But the threats from the Taliban ...

Analysts have warned that reducing the CIA’s presence in the country will increase the “ever-growing risks of a Taliban takeover”, prompting “last-minute efforts to secure bases close to ...

The Taliban still say they do not have Habibi in ... Rahim was captured in Pakistan in 2007 by the CIA and was the last detainee sent to the Guantanamo prison facility by the Bush administration ...

Egyptian film-maker Ibrahim Nash’at began filming this ambitious and utterly absorbing fly-on-the-wall documentary about the ...

Overall, the Taliban received $30 million ... the NDS rounded up Afghan couriers working for Unit 29155. Six former CIA officers who analyzed the intelligence on the GRU's operations in ...

Pakistan reported at least 73 cases last year, up from only one in 2021, and the disease is now rapidly spreading in the country’s most volatile regions.

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The United States and Afghanistan have carried out a prisoner swap, the Taliban announced early Tuesday.

Early in his tenure, in the summer of 2021, he flew to Kabul to negotiate with the Taliban over the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan ... Back at headquarters, he reoriented the CIA's priorities and ...

The Taliban leader, who spoke on the condition of ... According to a 2014 Senate report, the CIA subjected Rahim, who was captured in Pakistan, to “enhanced” interrogation techniques that ...

Two Americans held by the Taliban were exchanged for an Afghan imprisoned in the US on narco-terrorism charges.