The Taliban has sacked hundreds of men from Afghanistan’s security forces because they are unable to grow beards. Thousands ...

As Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner. Beside imposing severe rules on women, new laws require men to grow fist-length beards and bar them from imitating non ...

During the Taliban's previous rule, the conservative Islamists demanded that men grow beards. Since being ousted from power following the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, shaved or cleanly trimmed ...

Things are getting hairy for barbers in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, where the Taliban police have banned them from shaving or trimming beards in violation of Islamic law.

The Taliban are now prepared to commit themselves to refraining from banning girls' education, beating up taxi drivers for listening to Bollywood music, or measuring the length of mens' beards ...

As a result, more are growing beards, carrying prayer rugs and leaving their jeans at home. These first serious restrictions ...

Afghan men are transitioning to a new era of Taliban rule in which facial hair is back in fashion -- or else. After the Taliban issued an order barring the shaving of beards, barbers are facing ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, a U.N. report said ...

When the Taliban first ruled over Afghanistan between 1994 and the 2001 U.S.-led military invasion, the group routinely arrested men and boys for shaving or trimming their beards, or for wearing ...

The Taliban first came to power in the 1990s after the Soviet withdrawal and ensuing civil war. ... They also forced gender segregation, banned music and compelled men to grow beards.