The Taliban’s triumphant entry into Kabul marked the collapse of the Afghan Republic, the humiliating end of the Western ...

DEOBAND, India — Hundreds of young men in crisp white tunics and skullcaps sit cross-legged in classrooms ringed with porticoes, poring over Islamic texts. From a marble minaret above them, a dozen ...

Kabul (AsiaNews) - Taliban are Deobandi Muslims. However, in Deoband, India, where this religious movement first originated in the 19th century, Muslims are tired of being associated with these ...

But because it has no conception of accommodation in seeking its goals, the Taliban are predictably more bloodthirsty and unified. The predecessors of the Taliban, found among the Deobandi sect of ...

Afghanistan's Taliban regime's foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Saturday visited the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district as part of his six-day trip to ...

In its latest restriction on religious freedom, the Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education has ordered all private universities in Afghanistan to remove religious books that do not conform to the ...

The son of one of Pakistan’s most prominent anti-Taliban Muslim clerics fears that his father’s murder by a suicide bomber a week ago could spark more sectarian violence in a country already riven by ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's moderate clerics, for years mute in the face of growing Islamist influence, are mobilizing support for the government as it battles the Taliban, warning that militants ...

The recently released audio message by the emir of the Afghan Taliban movement, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, has sent waves of worry across the international community. Notwithstanding efforts by ...