Afghanistan's Taliban mandate face coverings for women news anchors
Afghanistan's Taliban, through their Virtue and Vice ministry, set a new rule forcing female news anchors to cover their faces while on TV.
Afghanistan's Taliban, through their Virtue and Vice ministry, set a new rule forcing female news anchors to cover their faces while on TV.
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Two high-level speakers at the World Economic Forum gathering say Afghanistan’s most urgent need is saving its economy from complete collapse. Achim Steiner, administrator of…
Move is part of hardline pivot after militants hinted at more moderate restrictions when taking power last year
Two long lines -- one of men, another of women -- wind around a World Food Programme (WFP) aid distribution site in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in the heat of the mid-morning sun.
One female TV news presenter in Afghanistan said of the Taliban :I am sure, they don't want the presence of women in general."
What happens to a society when its boys are brought up to understand that it is normal to control the women in their lives?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials were questioned Tuesday about why they misjudged the durability of governments in both Afghanistan and Ukraine, and whether they need to reform how…
Decree, which calls for women to only show eyes and recommends wearing the head-to-toe burqa, confirms rights activists' worst fears following group's return to power
The decree calls for women to only show their eyes and recommends they wear the head-to-toe burqa.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights…
Women in Afghanistan must cover their faces in public, according to a decree issued by the Taliban on Saturday.
A Kabul restaurant owner told Insider that the Taliban's control over Afghanistan ultimately led him to forget the idea of having a business.
Dozens of Afghan civilians have been killed in recent weeks in blasts, some of which have been claimed by the ISIL (ISIS) group.
Three military personnel dead after an assault on a military installation in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region.
Separate explosions in northern Afghanistan on Thursday have killed at least 15 people and left dozens more injured, local officials said.
Blast at Sai Doken mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif leaves dozens dead or wounded, officials say.
In total, the United States has agreed to provide 16 Mi-17s to Ukraine. All were undergoing U.S.-contracted maintenance outside of Afghanistan in August when the Taliban took over the country and…
Pakistan said on Sunday said incidents of its security forces being targeted in cross-border attacks from Afghanistan had risen significantly, and called on Taliban authorities to act against…
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Basheer was a young Taliban fighter barely out of his teens when the Islamic State group took over his village in eastern Afghanistan, nearly eight years ago. The…
The New Yorker magazine has posted a video showing an American man who was kidnapped in Afghanistan two years ago