The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern about the Taliban's arrest of women and girls for alleged ...

For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners ...

A UN report says the Taliban have tortured and threatened Afghans forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan because of their ...

A statement from the Taliban condemned the American strike, without specifically mentioning al-Zawahri or Al Qaeda. “It is an act against the interests of Afghanistan and the region,” said ...

Afghanistan’s ministry of education sits on a chaotic thoroughfare in downtown Kabul, ... Even Taliban officials in favor of opening girls’ schools stressed the imperative of eta’at, ...

Jul 28, 2025 // Under the Taliban, the hard–won, imperfect foundations of governance built over two decades in Afghanistan have been dismantled. To rebuild governance requires a meaningful conflict ...

The banned books the Taliban deems ‘deviant’ and ‘un-Islamic’ - INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Hundreds of titles removed from shelves ...

The Taliban are remaking Afghanistan in their image. It should have us all worried - COMMENT: As the Taliban turn drug ...

Kabul’s collapse had been expected, but the speed in which it happened stunned U.S. officials. Taliban fighters marched into the Afghan capital on Sunday seeking surrender of government. The U.S ...

Since Friday, the Taliban has overrun bastions of government control, snatching more than a quarter of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals on its way to controlling an estimated 65% of the country.

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban said Wednesday that efforts to free a British couple from an Afghan prison are not yet complete and ...

The Taliban has now seized control of Afghanistan two weeks before the United States was due to completely withdraw its troops after a 20-year military presence in the war-torn country.