Words matter, but looking back on his time as the head of the world’s most important spy agency, Burns also had numbers on ...

In an exit interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ...

In a wide-ranging exit interview, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns about the ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that Afghanistan's governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Since the Taliban's return to power in ...

Jake Sullivan faced the toughest global challenges of any national security adviser in a half-century. How did he do?

The Taliban have said they will close all national and foreign non-governmental groups (NGOs) in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of ...

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women ...

The Taliban's supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by Afghan women and saying that existing ones should be blocked.

The strikes killed dozens of people, mostly women and children. Comments from the Taliban Defense Ministry on Saturday, posted on X, said its forces targeted Pakistani points that “served as ...

As the global community marked International Human Rights Day earlier this month, millions of Afghan women and girls remained trapped in their homes, cast out of their schools, work and public life by ...

"Serving this community has been one of the greatest honors of my life," Burns wrote. "Thank you for trusting me to share stories that matter. I put my heart, passion, and integrity into every ...