What restrictions have the Taliban imposed in Afghanistan this year?Afghanistan experienced a nationwide internet and mobile service outage, coinciding with the Taliban's recent concerns about online pornogr...
30 Sep, 2025, 03.12 PM IST
British couple held for months in Afghanistan arrive back in UKPeter and Barbie Reynolds, a British couple, reached the U.K. after the Taliban released them. They had been detained in Afghanistan for ov...
20 Sep, 2025, 09.46 PM IST
Taliban bans Chess in Afghanistan citing religious concernsThe Taliban has prohibited chess in Afghanistan. The decision is due to religious concerns. The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevent...
12 May, 2025, 10.24 AM IST
Taliban administration officials to attend UN climate conference in AzerbaijanTaliban officials will attend the UN climate conference in Baku. This is the first time they will attend such a conference since taking pow...
10 Nov, 2024, 10.30 AM IST
Meryl Streep stands with Afghan women at UN, says ‘a cat has more freedom than a woman in Kabul’At a UN General Assembly event, actor Meryl Streep called attention to the Taliban's restrictions on Afghan women, likening their lack of r...
24 Sep, 2024, 05.37 PM IST
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers score diplomatic wins, consolidate powerThree years into its rule of Afghanistan, the Taliban government has achieved some diplomatic wins even as it has consolidated power and en...
12 Aug, 2024, 02.31 PM IST
Taliban's decrees on Afghan women cost country over USD 1 billion annuallyUS special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, highlighted that the Taliban's restrictions on women in Afghanistan cost the nation over $1 ...
11 Mar, 2024, 01.29 PM IST
Taliban to join China's Belt and Road forum, elevating tiesThe Taliban will attend China's Belt and Road Forum, demonstrating Beijing's growing ties with the administration. While the Taliban has at...
14 Oct, 2023, 06.05 PM IST
Taliban imposes restrictions on Afghanistan's Sikh, Hindu minoritiesUnder the Taliban, Sikhs and Hindus have faced severe restrictions, including on their appearances, and have been banned from marking their...
26 Aug, 2023, 12.04 PM IST
Afghanistan: Girls, women demand reopening educational institutes for themGirls and women in Afghanistan who have been deprived of their education have demanded the reopening of educational institutions in the cou...
19 Aug, 2023, 01.52 PM IST
Australia dump Afghan cricket series over Taliban crackdown on womenThe ACB said it would contact the International Cricket Council and was considering withdrawing its players from Australia's domestic Big B...
12 Jan, 2023, 06.44 PM IST
Taliban to charge Afghan media outlets operating from abroadBlaming the Afghan media organizations for spreading propaganda, the director of Taliban's ministry of information and culture said that th...
03 Jan, 2023, 01.07 PM IST
Taliban order Afghan women to wear all-covering burqa"They should wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is traditional and respectful," said a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that wa...
07 May, 2022, 03.32 PM IST
Taliban shut down schools for girls just hours after they reopenedThe education ministry offered no coherent explanation even as officials held a ceremony in the capital to mark the start of the new academ...
24 Mar, 2022, 12.54 AM IST
Afghan media brace for what's next under Taliban ruleIn a first sign the Taliban are trying to soften their extremist reputation, one of its officials unexpectedly walked into the studios of t...
03 Sep, 2021, 02.00 PM IST
Foreign members of ISIL-K, al-Qaida entered Afghanistan via Pakistan: UN report"A significant part of the leadership of Al-Qaida resides in the Afghanistan and Pakistan border region, alongside Al-Qaida in the Indian S...
28 Aug, 2021, 11.49 PM IST
Pakistan sanctions Taliban to avoid global finance blacklistPakistan issued sweeping financial sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban, just as the militant group is in the midst of U.S.-led peace pr...
22 Aug, 2020, 04.19 PM IST