A senior member of the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan on Tuesday called on Afghanistan's new rulers to reopen schools for girls beyond the sixth grade, saying there is no valid reason in Islam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ISLAMABAD (AP) — A senior member of the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan on Tuesday called on Afghanistan's new rulers to ...

The comments, at a special meeting to mark the U.N.'s international migrants day, underlined the new Islamist Taliban government's push to engage with the world community, four months after they ...

A senior Taliban minister, who publicly condemned the group’s ban on education of girls and women, has reportedly fled Afghanistan amid fears of arrest. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, the Taliban’s political ...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the deputy minister of foreign affairs within the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, urged the country’s senior leadership to reopen girls’ schools across the ...