The Taliban are tightening the screws on women's clothing, shooting at protesters and ordering even their own officials to stop using smartphones. Behind the regime's omnipresent control, there are ...

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

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Afghan regime has banned women from working outside the home or attending school and university - MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP VIA GETTY ...

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.

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

The protest followed the arrests of dozens of women for alleged dress code violation in the Afghan city of Herat.

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 ...

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“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 ...

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