Taliban authorities engage with many nations despite lacking formal international recognition. Regional countries pragmatically interact wi...

Pakistan experienced over 3,000 terrorism incidents this year, resulting in 800 deaths. As many as 2,084 terrorists were killed during this...

Malala Yousafzai called upon Muslim leaders to reject the Afghan Taliban government and to demonstrate true leadership by opposing restrict...

Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist, expressed her joy at being back in Pakistan for a global summit on...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly ki...

The White House has stated that the Taliban must meet their commitments in order to gain legitimacy from the international community. The T...

The International Criminal Court should prosecute Taliban leaders for a crime against humanity for denying education and employment to Afgh...

In recent months, the group's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has appeared to take a stronger hand in directing policy. In particula...

A team of AFP journalists saw groups of students gathered outside universities in the capital, Kabul, barred from entering by armed guards ...

After the takeover of the country by the Taliban, universities were forced to implement new rules including gender-segregated classrooms an...

Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women's live...

Under a 2011 UN Security Council resolution, 135 Taliban officials are subject to sanctions that include asset freezes and travel bans.

"As I speak to you today, millions of girls of secondary school age are missing out on education for the 27th consecutive day," Abdi said. ...

The new government has said that some form of education for girls and women will be permitted, but those parameters have not been clearly d...

Education minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said female university students would be required to wear a hijab but did not elaborate on whether ...

The structure of the new government runs counter to advice to the Taliban from world powers for an inclusive government, backing up its ple...

The hardline Islamist group that stormed to power in mid-August after ousting the Western-back government have vowed to rule differently co...