In January, one senior official left Afghanistan after speaking out against the ban, which has denied education to more than ...

Tired of burkas that cover the face, urban women under the Taliban's 'gender apartheid' have adopted the abaya robe favoured in Gulf nations Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women.

Kabul, Mar 19 (EFE).- The Taliban has banned the broadcasting of women’s voices on radio programs in the southern province of Kandahar in Afghanistan. “The broadcast of women’s voices on the ...

The Taliban’s leader said there was no need for Western laws in Afghanistan and that democracy was dead as long as sharia ...

He rarely leaves the Taliban heartland in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. He and his circle have been instrumental in imposing restrictions on women and girls that have sparked an ...