At hospitals, at seminaries and on buses, the Taliban is stepping up enforcement of rules on women's dress in the city of ...

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

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban government said on Tuesday it had released three ...

Mujahid clarified that the Taliban would show sympathy and possibly cooperate with Iran if requested, but the group is not ...

The world has shifted focus away from Afghanistan, much as it did in the lead-up to September 2001, giving dangerous networks ...

The Taliban’s newly reported criminal code in Afghanistan treats women as “slaves,” permits limited domestic violence, ...

Returns have strained resources in a country that was already struggling to cope with a weak economy and the effects of a ...

The Taliban has passed a law that allows men to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”.

Afghanistan’s new penal code reportedly signed by Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada allows husbands to physically ...

Al Qaeda remains resilient - and is still under the decades-long protection of the Taliban - as the United Nations warns ...

Women are treated in the new penal code as being on the same level as "slaves", with provisions allowing either "slave ...

Their reactions come after the Taliban formalised a new 90-page penal code, signed by its supreme leader Hibatullah ...