Taliban authorities in Afghanistan's Kandahar province ordered female aid workers this week to stop work on a refugee project, according to an official letter, reinforcing rules against women ...

The arrest warrants, for Afghanistan’s leader and its top justice official, say the restrictions on women and girls are ...

A top Taliban official said on Saturday that all Afghans who fled the country after the collapse of the former Western-backed government are free to return home, promising they would not be harmed ...

A senior Taliban official has called on the militant group to open schools for women and girls, a rare sign of internal divisions around one of the flagship policies of Afghanistan’s de facto ...

The Taliban announced they have arrested and will soon sentence an Afghan woman who appeared in a video on social media on Aug. 30, 2022, and said a senior Taliban official forced her into ...

Taliban orders NGOs to send women workers home The ban comes days after the Taliban-run government ordered universities to suspend classes for women until further notice.

Despite initially promising a more moderate rule and women's and minority rights, the Taliban have widely implemented their harsh interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.

A top Taliban official says Afghans who fled the country can return home, offering a a general amnesty to those who left after the collapse of the former Western-backed government.