Women in Afghanistan have been through it all. From the 1930s told the early 1990s they had their freedoms, becoming well ...

'Eye for an eye' Public executions were common during the Taliban's first rule from 1996 to 2001, but according to an AFP ...

Law and order is central to the severe ideology of the Taliban, which emerged from the chaos of a civil war following the ...

Taliban authorities on Wednesday carried out the public execution of a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium in ...

Taliban authorities in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday executed a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium, the ...

Former Afghan politician and women’s rights advocate Fawzia Koofi says the Taliban’s most recent efforts to erase women from ...

The education activist, 27, has warned that females in the restrictive country are being made to live in a system ...

Women in Afghanistan are not forbidden from speaking to each other, the Taliban government’s morality ministry told AFP on ...

In an email ahead of our scheduled interview, Nazifa Jalali said she was postponing our talk. “I have to deal with a case of stoning,” said the Afghan human rights activist. It was about a 17-year-old ...

Few women in Switzerland wear full face coverings like burqas, which are more commonly associated with Afghanistan. In ...

However, certain exceptions will apply under specific circumstances. The law is intended to target full-face coverings like ...

In an exclusive conversation with Firstpost, Afghan human rights activist Mahbouba Seraj narrates how the Taliban’s new ban ...