The House has passed the "No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act" proposed by Republican Representative Tim Burchett.

How did the Taliban originate? What is their record as leaders? What does their rule mean for women? We have answers.

In Radio 4's Beyond Belief, Mobeen Azhar and guests explore what the Taliban believe, how they have justified their actions theologically and whether any of those core beliefs are likely to change.

Taliban militants have seized control of Afghanistan's capital Kabul and claimed they will respect women's rights.

The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, twenty years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked down on women’s rights and neglected basic services.

Under the Taliban government of the 1990s, women who failed to wear a burqa in public were often beaten by vice and virtue religious police, who also delivered warnings to male relatives.

In a conversation with CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, Ali Maisam Nazary, the head of foreign relations for the National Resistance Front, discusses the group’s guerilla war against ...

Islamabad — The Taliban announced Saturday that an all-covering head-to-toe burqa will be mandatory in public for women in Afghanistan, the latest in a set of curbs the Islamist group has ...

Reporting from Kabul, Najibullah Quraishi says the Taliban's vice and virtue squads have reinstituted harsh punishments, including whipping, chopping off hands and even hanging people from cranes.

The minister of higher education in the Taliban government on Thursday defended his decision to ban women from universities — a decree that had triggered a global backlash.

After the Taliban swept into power, Abdul said lots of people, including himself, had hoped that corrupt officials would be forced out and that the Taliban would form a coalition government.