KABUL (Reuters) -Afghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car ...

Decree from Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice & Department of Information and Culture reported to ...

The Taliban has announced a wide-ranging law that all but codifies the disappearance of women from public life in Afghanistan. It comes now three years since the group returned to power after U.S. and ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban's morality ministry dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral ...

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Decked out with fake crystal chandeliers and velvet sofas, cosmetic surgery clinics in Afghanistan's capital are a world away from the austerity of Taliban rule, where Botox, lip filler, and hair ...

The order in Helmand province was issued by the provincial Taliban government's vice and virtue department to barbers in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital. ``Since I have heard (about the ban on ...