Taliban News
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Kabul's mannequins, hooded and masked under Taliban rules
Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their...
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Taliban ban on women workers hits vital aid for Afghans
Last June, a team of female doctors and nurses drove six hours across mountains, dry riverbeds and on unpaved roads...
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Afghan women determined, frustrated after Taliban NGO ban
Even before the Taliban barred Afghan women from working at non-governmental groups, their forces visited the office of one local...
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Afghan resistance sees Taliban weakness as it seeks to exhaust the enemy
It has been more than a year since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, in a display of dominance that...
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'Stop interfering in Afghanistan', says Taliban leader in rare appearance
The Taliban's reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada called Friday for the world to stop telling them how to run Afghanistan,...
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Russia working on Taliban ties, Putin says in Tajikistan
President Vladimir Putin says Russia is trying to build relations with the Taliban and that Russia wants to see all...
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Emma Watson shares post in 'solidarity' with Palestine
Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has posted a message of solidarity with Palestinians on Instagram. Reposting a graphic from the...
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Afghans facing 'hell on earth' as winter looms
This is a country which is starting to feel the very real fear of hunger.The weather is turning from early...
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First US-Taliban talks since pullout 'candid and professional'
The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior US and Taliban officials since the hardline group...
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Over 100 musicians flee Afghanistan, fearing Taliban crackdown
More than 100 music students and teachers have fled Afghanistan in a nail-biting flight from Kabul following the Taliban's takeover...
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Top NGO leader presses Taliban on letting women work
The Taliban have "basically agreed" to let one of Afghanistan's biggest foreign aid organizations continue employing women, the group's head...
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Unusual UN meet to close without Taliban, Myanmar speeches
Assembly in New York ends Monday but without speeches by those in power in Afghanistan and Myanmar, one of many...
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'This is our homeland': Women plead for basic rights in Afghanistan
As the Taliban increasingly excludes women from public life in Afghanistan, some are determined to speak out despite the threat...
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Taliban expand economic team
Afghanistan's Taliban government bolstered its economic team on Tuesday, naming a commerce minister and two deputies as the group tries...
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Girls excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan
Girls were excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan on Saturday, after the country's new Taliban rulers ordered only...
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Taliban thank world for promised aid, urge US to show 'heart'
The Taliban on Tuesday thanked the world for pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid to Afghanistan, and...