A senior Taliban leader has publicly criticized his government’s policy of prohibiting female education in Afghanistan, calling it a “personal choice” rather than an interpretation of ...

In Herat, Afghanistan, a young woman learns carpet ... I still like to think of this as our classroom. It helps me cope with the sadness of not being allowed to go to secondary school.” ...

Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, who previously led a team of negotiators at the Taliban's political office in Doha before US forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, said in a speech at the ...