The influential New York Times newspaper recently published a lengthy profile of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of a Taliban faction...

Social media platforms like TikTok, X (formerly twitter), and Facebook, which are wildly popular among young Afghans, have become the...

The Taliban publicly whipped three people, including a woman on charges of running away from home and adultery in Faryab...

A prestigious Magnitsky Human Rights Award has been presented to Rukhshana Media’s founder and editor-in-chief Zahra Joya in recognition of...

The Taliban’s vice and virtue police have detained a young woman and man in west Kabul, allegedly for having illicit...

The Taliban forces have publicly whipped 35 people, including eight women, in Jawzjan, Takhar, Nangarhar, Ghazni and Kunar provinces over...

A new religious school in Badakhshan province is raising concerns among local residents that Taliban authorities are attempting to eradicate...

Four female writers have topped the awards at the 12th Awsana (Myth) and Literary Festival in Balkh province from more...

A 16-year-old girl’s death in Tehran has been blamed on “inappropriate treatment from school authorities” over her choice of clothing,...

I am Mariam Amiri. I’m 16 and live in a country where being a girl is treated like a crime....