Afghanistan has pulled out of an upcoming cricket series after three players in a local tournament were killed in an air ...

In a renewed and intensified assault on women's freedoms, the Taliban has launched a wave of arbitrary arrests across Afghanistan, targeting women and girls accused of violating the group’s extreme ...

Over the course of six months, photographer Kiana Hayeri and researcher Melissa Cornet created a portrait of the lives of Afghan women under the strict regime of the Taliban. In a country facing one ...

Sources have confirmed that Taliban members in western Afghanistan shot a man dead and hanged his body in public on Friday, August 22. The incident has drawn condemnation from rights activists who ...

Almost 10 million people, a quarter of Afghanistan’s population, face acute food insecurity. One in three children is stunted. Afghanistan is seeing its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition, the ...

One thing that remains consistent over the last 30 years in observing America's participation in Afghanistan is that mistakes and errors of judgment, no matter how egregious or self-defeating, never ...

Checking imported books, removing texts from libraries and distributing lists of banned titles — Taliban authorities are working to remove "un-Islamic" and anti-government literature from circulation.

KABUL, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The Taliban have ordered internet and mobile phone data services to be cut across Afghanistan, diplomatic and industry sources said on Tuesday, as residents and monitoring ...

Fresh violence has broken out in Khash district of Badakhshan province, where armed clashes between Taliban forces and local residents have resulted in at least seven deaths and more than 40 injuries, ...

The body of an 8-year-old girl who had been missing for three days was recovered in the Bhana Mari area here, police informed on Monday. Police said, the girl’s body was discovered at the home of a ...

Zalala Hashimi, a Pashto singer and finalist in Season 12 of Afghan Star, has been missing for over two weeks in Kabul. Her husband reported that she left home to visit a friend but never returned.

Local sources in Helmand say that a 45-year-old man, who already has two other wives, has married a 6-year-old girl. According to the sources, the girl’s father gave her in marriage to this older man ...