The Taliban leader says executions are part of Islam. That's after rights groups and the U.N. condemned the public executions of four men days earlier after they were convicted of murder.

The leadership and decision-makers of the Taliban originate from a remote and underprivileged tribal background in Afghanistan. Consequently, they are fundamentally opposed to the development of ...

The Taliban's morality police -- some 3,300 officers vested by the regime to enforce its so-called "Propagation of Virtue and ...

Russia’s Supreme Court says it received a petition from the prosecutor general’s office to lift the ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban, who were outlawed two decades ago as a terrorist group ...

In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its ... That came after nearly two decades of fighting which claimed the lives of almost 2,500 American troops.

Defying the Taliban's order dismissing her, she remained in the embassy and still continues to represent her country in Vienna while fighting for ... not the absence of war, but the presence ...

The appeal by UNICEF comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade. The ban, said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education, bringing ...

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Governments worldwide are imposing oppressive laws and cracking down on our freedoms, but together, we can fight back. Like many not-for-profit organisations, we are facing new challenges due to the ...

“In difficult economic and personal circumstances, Bakhtari decides to stand up to the Taliban and continue her courageous fight for the ... is not the absence of war, but the presence of ...