The Taliban says its initial task is to pave a 30-mile stretch of dirt road just west of the Chinese border, though 200 more ...

The Taliban have banned windows that look onto areas where Afghan women could be seen inside their homes. "Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead ...

The Taliban's supreme leader said Sunday there is "no need" for Western laws in Afghanistan, noting that democracy is dead as long as sharia laws are in place. Hibatullah Akhundzada was speaking ...

The Taliban’s anti-Persian stance is rooted in their educational and cultural background, but also reflects a longstanding desire by successive Afghan governments to displace the Persian language.

The Pentagon has appraised the value of U.S. military equipment left behind in Afghanistan at approximately $7 billion. A ...

Contrary to what is assumed, the Taliban, thus, are not some aberration from the Deoband tradition of ensuring social control, rather as political Islam scholar Kamran Bokhari explains, they are ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for alleged gender-based crimes, as the group continues to crack down on women’s rights in Afghanistan.

Ms. Koofi is a former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament. I was a first-year medical student at Kabul University when, on Sept. 26, 1996, Taliban fighters swept in and seized the capital. It ...

One of Donald Trump's latest immigration moves could be sending Afghan Christians to die at the hands of the Taliban, an anti-Christian persecution group has warned.. Trump's administration took ...

The Taliban overthrew the U.S.-backed Ghani government in Afghanistan about two weeks ahead of the U.S. military’s withdrawal at the end of August 2021, after two decades of war.

A new morality law is full of restrictions. No neckties for men. Photos cannot be reproduced. The harshest rules are for women — who are singing out on social media to protest the ban on singing.

Cross-border traffic has fallen since the Taliban takeover in 2021, but dozens of Afghans still enter Uzbekistan daily, and cargo movement at the border crossing is visibly dynamic. “We see ...