Americans have been invited to visit Afghanistan as tourists in a promotional video shared on Taliban-linked social media ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 .

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.

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 ...

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 ...