KABOUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban marked the first anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan with a national holiday Monday, following a turbulent year that saw women's rights crushed and a humanitarian crisis worsen. Exactly a year ago, the hardline Islamists captured Kabul after their...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters beat women protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of the hardline Islamists' return to power. Afghan women hold placards as they march and shout slogans...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban said Thursday they have no knowledge of Ayman al-Zawahiri's presence in Afghanistan, days after US President Joe Biden announced the Al-Qaeda chief had been killed by a drone strike in Kabul. This handout image courtesy of Maxar Technologies released on August 2,...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban have carried out hundreds of human rights violations in Afghanistan since seizing power last year, the United Nations said Wednesday, including extra judicial killings and torture. Fiona Frazer, Chief Human right United Nations assistance Mission in Afghanistan (R)...
Burqa-clad women walk along a street in Kandahar on May 7, 2022. The Taliban on May 7 imposed some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since they seized power, ordering them to cover fully in public, ideally with the traditional burqa. Javed TANVEER / AFP KABUL, Afghanistan -- The...
KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban forces have arrested a suspected Islamic State militant who allegedly planned a bomb attack that killed at least 12 worshippers at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan, police said Friday. IS has claimed responsibility for the bomb blast that tore through the Seh Dokan...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada on Sunday, April 3, banned in a decree the cultivation of opium poppy and trade of opium in Afghanistan, the Taliban-led caretaker government confirmed. Chief spokesman of Afghanistan's caretaker government Zabihullah Mujahid...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from flying unless accompanied by a male relative, in the latest crackdown on basic human rights by the country's new rulers since seizing power. The hardline Islamists have imposed sweeping restrictions on...
DOHA, Qatar -- The Taliban's ban on girls' education won't last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be "empowered". The hard-line Afghan regime closed girls' secondary schools just hours after reopening them this week,...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- About two dozen girls and women chanting "open the schools" protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban's ecision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week. Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States said Friday that it has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls' secondary schools. "We have cancelled some of our engagements, including planned meetings in Doha around the Doha...
WASHINGTON, United States – The United States and other Western countries on Thursday condemned the Taliban's decision to shut girls secondary schools in Afghanistan just hours after reopening them, and urged the hardline Islamist movement to reverse course. The joint statement from the...
