Afghanistan's minister in charge of vice and virtue defended on Monday the crackdown on women's dress code in the western ...

The Taliban regime has transformed courts and state institutions into tools for enforcing decrees that intensify the ...

Zahra Joya had been five years old when the Taliban first seized power. When they did it a second time, in August 2021, she ...

Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule.

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 ...

A newly announced ban on smartphones for government workers, police and military personnel is spilling over into healthcare ...

Businesses in Afghanistan's western city of Herat are witnessing a sharp decline in customers as women increasingly avoid ...

Rina Amiri, former U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights, speaks with Christiane Amanpour about the Taliban’s extremely restrictive treatment of women in Afghanistan. Social ...

Once again, we have arrived at “International Non-Binary People’s Day and Awareness Week”… another day, week, month assigned ...

The 47 women on death row and thousands of others serving life terms face treatment that advocates say is often harsher than their male counterparts.

KABUL, June 25 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban government has ordered a nationwide ban on civil servants' smartphone use, a military court order showed, prompting warnings from rights activists that ...