Taliban: Restriction on Afghan Women Working for UN Is “An Internal Problem”

The Taliban government in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that a prohibition on Afghan women working for…

Hundreds of internally displaced Afghans who had taken refuge in the capital left for their homes in the country’s eastern provinces Thursday

Almost a year after the war that forced them to flee ended. Millions migrated inside Afghanistan…

At least 16 people were killed in two Afghan cities on Thursday by bomb blasts that were claimed by the Islamic State group (IS)

Since Taliban fighters seized control of Afghanistan last year after ousting the US-backed government, the number…

United States will resume talks with the Taliban next week in Qatar

The American delegation will be led by the US special representative for Afghanistan, Tom West, for…

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said Saturday they had begun paying government employees

Who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and triggered a major financial…

Afghanistan’s deep economic crisis threatens to raise the “risk of extremism” in the region

The war-ravaged country finds itself on the brink of a humanitarian disaster as foreign assets and…

The Taliban have arrested a man for allegedly selling dozens of women in northern Afghanistan

The man was arrested in northern Jawzjan province late on Monday, Damullah Seraj, the Taliban provincial…

Taliban Launch Operation Against IS In Southern Afghanistan

The operation against Islamic State-Khorasan — the local chapter of the jihadist group — started around…

Iran is sending tens of thousands of Afghan migrants back to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan every week despite the threat of famine

During decades of conflict, millions of Afghans have crossed into their western neighbour seeking to escape…

When a Taliban militant meets Afghan pop star Ayrana Sayeed, he tries to charm her

“If you marry me, I will have a beard and a moustache and tanks. And I…