A 21-year-old Afghan Taekwondo champion has received over 5,000 threat calls and messages for criticising the Taliban's ban on women's sports. Marzieh Hamidi, who now lives in Paris under police…
Moscow formally labelled the Taliban a terrorist organisation in 2003. Moscow: Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that a decision to remove the Taliban from a list of terrorist organisations…
Afghanistan's fight against polio has taken a hit because the Taliban, who control the nation's government, decided to halt the vaccine campaign there. This decision was taken only a few…
Representatives from the Taliban-led government did not comment on the situation immediately.Kabul: The United Nations (UN) announced on Monday that the Taliban has suspended all polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan.UN…
By the side of a Kabul highway, enterprising vendors stack energy drinks high as the traffic roars past.Herat, Afghanistan: A production line in a warehouse in western Afghanistan churns out…
The 35-article morality law says women must cover up completely and not raise their voices. (File)Kabul: The Taliban government's morality police said it would not cooperate with the United Nation's…
Three years after the suicide bomber attack at Afghanistan's Abbey Gate that killed 13 US service personnel and about 170 Afghan civilians, the network behind the perpetrator is "pretty degraded"…
The laws also instruct drivers of vehicles not to transport women without a male guardianKabul: Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from…
Malala Yousafzai shared some photographs from the Taylor Swift concert on InstagramFor Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, long before she became an inspiration to the world, it was music that made her…
There are now nearly 2.5 million girls deprived of their right to education, the UN agency said.Kabul: At least 1.4 million girls in Afghanistan have been denied access to secondary…