Zahra Haqparast, a dentist and women’s rights activist who was imprisoned by the Taliban in 2022 and now speaks from exile in ...

Suicide rates have increased in Afghanistan in recent years, as the nation grapples with crippling poverty, a lack jobs and ...

The Taliban want to be included in U.N. climate talks. A Taliban delegation attended last year’s COP29 climate talks in ...

Fears have been raised over the fate of elite Afghan commandos, who military sources believe will be among the Taliban's top ...

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

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

Earlier this month, a database containing the details of 100,000 Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in the UK was ...

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

In a country scarred by four decades of war, women are the only or primary breadwinners for many families — and many are now ...

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.

Nearly four years after the Taliban reconquered Afghanistan, numerous countries have diplomatically engaged with the Islamic ...

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