After failing to obtain the release of three U.S. prisoners from Taliban custody using the ‘carrot’ method, U.S. leaders ...

The Taliban has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn't cause broken bones or open wounds. The Rawadari human rights ...

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway ...

The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...

New legal code formalises domestic violence within limits, embeds class-based justice system and replaces protections under the 2009 EVAW law ...

The Trump administration says Afghanistan's conditions have improved in recent years to the point where sending Afghan nationals back does not pose a threat to their safety. That's how members of the ...

“All the heavy weapons and the money of the previous government didn’t accomplish much,” said Iqbal Noori, the owner of a mobile phone shop in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-largest city. “We have to ...

An elderly British couple who were imprisoned in one of the Taliban's most notorious prisons have revealed the horrific conditions inside, calling it 'the closest thing to Hell.' Peter Reynolds, 80, ...

“My team-mates are my sisters. Our dream is to play together again, standing side by side.” In June 2021, Fatima Foladi was a rising football star in Afghanistan when she scored against Tajikistan in ...