The Taliban have barred women entrepreneurs from selling their handicrafts and other artisanal products at a big trade fair in the eastern Afghanistan in Jalalabad city, according to visitors attending the exhibition. 

One spring day Mah Bibi’s three youngest sons were playing with an unusual object they had found in the ground when it exploded, killing them outright along with three friends. 

The family of an Afghan teenager jailed by the Taliban for five years after refusing to marry an influential tribal figure in his 70s have appealed to...

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The family of a young Afghan woman who vanished in Kabul last month after leaving her home to exercise say...

Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have published new rules on women’s hijab, stating that it must be made of thick material, non-decorative...

Just weeks before their traumatic experience late last year, 16 Afghans, including a mother and two children, drowned off Turkey’s...

By Ruchi Kumar, Ghazaal Mohammadi and Sina. Taliban forces fire on crowds in Herat, who were protesting at manhandling of...

Taliban authorities in the northwestern Afghan city of Herat have detained dozens of women for failing to comply with the...

Last month, the Taliban issued a new decree on marriage that makes it almost impossible for a woman to get...