Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban ...

Canada's Special Representative to Afghanistan David Sproule is condemning the Taliban's latest curtailment of women's rights ...

A Taliban spokesman says explosions and gunfire in Iran targeted and killed at least two Afghans earlier this month.

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report. Cultivation increased by an estimated 19 percent this year, the report published ...

Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for them to hear,” he said in his message.

Jawed Mohmand, an Afghan academic and political commentator, is the latest figure to be detained by the Taliban as part of ...

This ban is a continuation of the Taliban's extensive restrictions on women's rights, aiming to reduce their public ...

Women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are currently barred from most of the ordinary activities their counterparts elsewhere in the world see as their natural right – studying, working, going to a salon ...

By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan For most of the three years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, their erasure of women’s rights appeared to be setting ...

Nov 04, 2024 // Kazakhstan shifts its stance on the Taliban, prioritizing regional stability through trade and collaboration.

A Taliban government minister says Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other ...

In Afghanistan, the Ministry of Propaganda of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the Islamic movement Taliban forbade women to ...