An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power.

This ban is a continuation of the Taliban's extensive restrictions on women's rights, aiming to reduce their public ...

The Taliban has been trying to force former Afghan officers living at Ministry of Defence camps to work for them as spies by ...

Jawed Mohmand, an Afghan academic and political commentator, is the latest figure to be detained by the Taliban as part of ...

The resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021 cast a long shadow of oppression over the nation, disproportionately impacting women and the LGBTQ+ community. While the violence against ...

Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, the Taliban minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, declared that women ...

A Taliban government minister says Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other ...

The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women. It marks another addition to a mounting pile of laws ...

UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly emphasized the urgency of sustainable alternatives for Afghan farmers, given their ...

An Afghanistan veteran's combat meeting with Taliban fighters is now his blueprint for bridging political divides at home.

And while precise details of the Taliban’s ruling are unclear, Afghan human rights activists have warned it could mean women are effectively banned from holding conversations with one another.

Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear,” he said in his message.