Afghanistan's Taliban rulers deny shooting at protesters and claim no women or girls have been arrested because they're all following strict dress code rules.

Two women doctors working at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed Tuesday in a bomb attack, officials said, in the latest of several targeted killings in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - An Afghan woman walks out of a cell inside the women's section of the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept.

The news from Afghanistan — or at least the news that can be gleamed and pieced together through the screen of censorship imposed by the Taliban regime — is alarming. In early June, Taliban ...

June, 17-year-old Shakiba* was arrested by the Taliban’s morality police (the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice) along with dozens of other women. Her alleged crime ...

KABUL, June 8 (Reuters) - The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has expressed concern over the arrest and detention of women in a western province for allegedly failing to comply with "dress ...

Fear has gripped Afghanistan's third city as the Taliban government violently enforces a stricter dress code for women. Members of the Taliban's notorious morality police have arrested and even ...

Two women doctors working at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed Tuesday by a bomb stuck to their car, officials said. The blast happened in the south of ...