World & Nation
A Taliban delegation is attending a United Nations-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan after organizers said women would be excluded from the talks.
June 30, 2024
The Taliban leader issued the warning at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and is isolated on the global stage.
June 17, 2024
The school year in Afghanistan has started but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade.
March 20, 2024
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says women are scared to leave their homes alone because of Taliban rules.
Feb. 17, 2024
A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden.
Aug. 17, 2023
The U.N. says more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have occurred since the Taliban takeover.
Aug. 22, 2023
Two top rights groups say the Taliban’s restrictions on Afghan women and girls amount to gender-based persecution, which is a crime against humanity.
May 26, 2023
A U.N. report has strongly criticized Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers for carrying out executions, lashings, stonings and other types of punishments.
May 8, 2023
Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor said the gunfight killed two people. He described the situation as now being under control.
May 27, 2023
Taliban kills the Islamic State leader behind the 2021 suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 U.S. servicemembers and 170 Afghans.
April 25, 2023