As the Taliban starts enforcing draconian new rules on women in Afghanistan, it has also begun to target a group that didn’t see tight restrictions on them coming: Afghan men. Women have faced ...

Afghan-born US citizen Mahmood Shah Habibi, 37, was working with an American telecommunications company when he was arrested by the Taliban in August 2022 after a drone strike killed al-Qaeda ...

Taliban-run media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws, an official confirmed Tuesday. In August, the country’s Vice and Virtue ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban morality ministry pledged on Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, with journalists told the rule will be gradually ...

Pakistan and Iran have sharply criticized diplomats from the de facto Taliban government in neighboring Afghanistan for showing “disrespect” to their national anthems in breach of diplomatic ...

A new report by the United Nations has documented a significant uptick in violence in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. In its quarterly report, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA ...

“They are the Taliban team for me, not the Afghan team,” she said, a similar accusation she has leveled against the Afghan cricket team, calling for Afghan sports teams to be banned from the ...

The payments represent a significant and growing revenue stream for the cash-strapped Taliban regime. Afghan airspace became off-limits to international flights amid safety fears around the time ...

Germany, Australia, Canada and the Netherlands said they will take the Taliban to the U.N.’s highest court because of its harsh restrictions on Afghan women. By Marlise Simons Four countries on ...

The four countries called upon Afghanistan and the Taliban de facto authorities to immediately cease their violations of the human rights of women and girls and to answer the request for dialogue ...

KABUL, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The Taliban administration is in control of 39 Afghan embassies and consulates globally three years after it took over Afghanistan and the previous Western-backed ...