Mariam’s story is not unusual; her four sisters each had similar experiences, as have countless other Afghan women. I know this all too well—I was born in Afghanistan during the Taliban’s ...

Taliban-run media in several provinces of Afghanistan ceased the broadcast of images depicting living beings to comply with new morality laws, an official confirmed on Tuesday. This move follows ...

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The Taliban has ordered media in three provinces of Afghanistan to stop airing images of any living being, a drastic step widely criticized by journalism and civil liberty groups. A Taliban ...

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Overdose deaths have remained steady, largely thanks to a regular, relatively pure supply of heroin shipped straight from Afghanistan. "I remember roughly a year or so after the Taliban came into ...

another message read. More than 5,000 calls and messages bombarded Marzieh Hamidi’s phone in the days after the Afghan Taekwondo champion dared to suggest that her home country’s men’s ...

Government agencies are pointing fingers over how an Afghan national, who is now charged with plotting an Election Day terror attack, was allowed into the U.S. and ...

A family member of an Afghan arrested in Oklahoma last week for allegedly plotting an Election Day terror attack reportedly has been apprehended in France on ...

The Biden-Harris administration now admits that an Afghan national accused of plotting an Election Day terror attack did not undergo certain vetting they previously ...

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

There is a great and honourable military tradition of “no one left behind”. In the case of the Afghan special forces serving in integrated operations with British forces, however, that ...