Afghanistan's anti-doping efforts have collapsed since the Taliban's return. No tests were conducted for three years. Last year, only four ...

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

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

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

US special envoy for Afghan women, Rina Amiri, highlighted that the Taliban's restrictions on women in Afghanistan cost the nation over $1 ...

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...

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...

Earlier this month, four girls schools above grade 6 in Gardez, the provincial capital, and one in the Samkani district began operating wit...

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

Taliban rulers unexpectedly decided against reopening schools Wednesday to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to...

Despite the schools reopening, barriers to girls returning to education remain, with many families suspicious of the Taliban and reluctant ...

"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...

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

This is the first 'fatwa' issued by the Taliban after its swift takeover of Afghanistan last week. Capital Kabul's capture on Sunday signif...