Since the de facto authority of the Taliban took over power in mid-August 2021 following the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, women and girls have been experiencing tougher restrictions in terms of freedom of expression, education, work, tra...

The UN reaffirmed its "commitment to stay" in Afghanistan on Friday, in a review assessing its operations in the country in light of the Taliban banning women from working for the world body.The United Nations announced on April 4 that the Taliban ha...

Pakistan's Taliban warned Saturday of more attacks against law enforcement officers, a day after four people were killed when a suicide squad stormed a police compound in Karachi.The police are often used on the frontline of Pakistan's battle with th...

Islamabad will ask the secretive supreme leader of Afghanistan's Taliban to rein in militants in Pakistan after a suicide bombing killed scores of police in a mosque, officials said Saturday.Since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul, Pakistan has...

Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have "beaten and detained" an academic who voiced outrage on live television against their ban on women's university education, his aide said Friday.Veteran journalism lecturer Ismail Mashal caused a storm by tearing...

By AFPUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions against the Taliban Wednesday in response to bans on employment and education for women in Afghanistan."I amtaking actiontoday to impose additional visa restrictions on certai...

By AFPAid groups say they have been "pushed against a wall" by the Taliban prohibiting Afghan women from working for NGOs, a ban that has left a dangerous gap in life-saving support.Afghanistan's NGOs have been instrumental in trying to address one o...

By AFPSeveral foreign aid groups announced on Sunday they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working.Their announcement prompted warnings from international off...

By AFPHundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards on Wednesday from entering Afghan university campuses, a day after the nation's Taliban rulers banned them from higher education in another assault on human rights.Despite promising a softer...

By AFPAn Afghan man convicted of murder was executed in public on Wednesday, the Taliban said, the first confirmation of such a sentence since the hardline Islamists returned to power."The supreme court was instructed to implement this order of qisas...

By AFPThree people were killed and 23 injured Wednesday when a suicide bomber targeted a police truck in western Pakistan, an attack claimed by the domestic chapter of the Taliban.Tehreek–e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), separate from the Afghan Taliban but...

The cases of malnutrition among Afghan children have reached nearly 47 percent since January this year.In its report, Save the Children organization mentioned that it treated nearly 2,500 impoverished children in January, and now the number has incre...