Darkly comic videos made by a tour agency and shared by Taliban-linked accounts on social media are encouraging people to ...

Pilibhit: In a disturbing case of domestic violence from Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit, a man named Mohammad Yameen was subjected ...

The Associated Press said it had seen a 114-page document that includes the laws covered by the ministry, featuring 35 articles such as Afghan women's hijab, men's clothing and rules in the media.

A Taliban fighter stands guard near the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque as people attend the Eid al-Adha prayer in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) AP. By .

But in St. Louis, where Zary came as a refugee from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, that type of traditional clothing and jewelry is hard to find. Zary started importing them herself.

Harley-Davidson CEO Jochen Zeitz compared himself to the Taliban in a 2020 speech, saying he's "trying to redefine" capitalism. Some longtime riders are now abandoning the company.

The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women. It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women ...

Since retaking power, the Taliban has banned certain music, barred women from parks, and now outlawed chess. Authoritarians don’t just crush dissent—they criminalize joy.

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

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 drivers from ...

For most of the three years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, their erasure of women’s rights appeared to be setting them on course for near-total isolation in the world ...

Ms. Mehran is an Afghan activist and policy specialist. Ever since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021 with promises that — this time — they would be more moderate, they have ...