Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has strongly criticized the Taliban regime for systematic suppression of women and curtailment of civil liberties in Afghanistan.

Academy acceptance brings rare global recognition amid Taliban bans on cinema, music, and education NEW YORK, NY, ...

A new penal code issued by the Taliban in Afghanistan establishes a caste-based legal system and severely restricts the ...

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry summoned a senior Afghan diplomat and lodged a strong protest over a deadly suicide attack ...

The toddler cries as an oxygen mask is fitted to his face, its green elastic band stretched across his sunken cheeks. When he was first hospitalized a month ago, the 2 ½-year-old ...

The Taliban has passed a law that allows men to beat their wives as long as it does not cause “broken bones or open wounds”.

Iran has little interest in sponsoring a terrorist group that does not act in its interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Barbers in Afghanistan risk detention for trimming men's beards too short, they told AFP, as the Taliban authorities enforce their strict interpretation of Islamic law with increasing zeal.- Business ...

Pakistan's Punjab province was set to repatriate 20 Afghan citizens to their homeland on Thursday as it continued its drive against undocumented Afghan nationals, a Punjab Home Department spokesperson ...

Al Qaeda remains resilient — and is still under the decades-long protection of the Taliban — as the United Nations warns ...

Afghanistan’s new laws, signed by the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, give animals ‘more rights’ than women as they legalise domestic violence.

"This ruling brings a long-awaited measure of finality and legal certainty for the Masts and their daughter, and for adoptive ...