A former Taliban commander has pleaded guilty to providing support for attacks that killed American soldiers and for key ...

Movement in Afghanistan continues to fight for women's rights, justice, and freedom, defying Taliban oppression through ...

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in ...

NEW YORK — A former Taliban commander pleaded guilty Friday to providing weapons and other support for attacks that killed American soldiers and for key roles in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of ...

Arpan Rai sits down with Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan’s only remaining female ambassador, to talk about the Taliban’s new regime and what it means to resist ...

The Taliban's strict enforcement of Sharia law ... But he said he was met with an interrogation and guns aimed at his head. Toyosi added: "I had machine guns pointed at my head, and was ...

Experts point out that this concern does not extend to Afghanistan’s intangible heritage. Music, dance, folklore, and any artistic expression involving women remain strictly prohibited under the group ...

In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in power and claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan's ...