The Taliban has maintained control of Afghanistan for five years. Mounting domestic pressures include poverty and refugee returns. Internal...

Half of Afghan women now leave their homes only once or twice monthly. Taliban decrees have systematically dismantled women's rights since ...

Taliban barred 2.4 million Afghan girls from secondary education since 2021. Afghanistan is the only country with such formal bans on educa...

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

The Taliban has prohibited chess in Afghanistan. The decision is due to religious concerns. The Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevent...

Sher Abbas Stanikzai, a senior Taliban official, has publicly called on the group's leadership to lift bans on education for Afghan women a...

The United Nations General Assembly is addressing the rights of Afghan women and children, particularly concerning the Taliban's ban on gir...

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

The ban on the education of Afghan girls and women has resulted in a surge in the risk of early marriage, violence and abuse in the country...

The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021 and has sparked g...

The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021 and has sparked g...

"We have noted with concern the reports in this regard. India has consistently supported the cause of female education in Afghanistan," Ari...

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

Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Abdul Qahar Balkhi said, "this suspension is a temporary suspension, and it is not a permanent ban, it h...

"They should wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is traditional and respectful," said a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that wa...

The Educational Directorate, the Ministry of Education, Afghanistan in an official letter said that students and teachers are no longer all...

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