And while precise details of the Taliban’s ruling are unclear, Afghan human rights activists have warned it could mean women are effectively banned from holding conversations with one another.

Laws included the ban on women reading or singing in public. In 2022, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan said that Taliban restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls ...

Korashi was arrested in May in Elk Grove, California. She had been living among fellow Afghan refugees. It is unclear when she first arrived in the United States. She fled Afghanistan and started ...

The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women. It marks another addition to a mounting pile of laws ...

(AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq, File) ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister. It’s the latest ...

A midwife in Herat told Amu TV that Taliban officials forbid female healthcare workers, the last of the Afghan women allowed to work outside their homes, from speaking, especially with male relatives.

A Taliban government minister says Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women ISLAMABAD -- Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or ...

According to Amu TV, a Virginia-based Afghan news channel, the order was delivered by Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, Taliban minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice, who stated that ...

The Supreme Court of the de facto radical Afghan rulers announced the latest punishments Tuesday, saying they were done in Nangarhar province after a local court sentenced the four "criminals" to ...

This latest measure, announced by Afghanistan’s minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, Khalid Hanafi, adds to an existing string of draconian rules aimed at controlling Afghan ...

Emphasising that the Taliban government would not allow terrorist groups to use its soil against Pakistan, Afghan Chargé d’Affaires (CdA) Mawlawi Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb on Tuesday said the China ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. The Taliban have banned Afghan women from allowing their voices to be heard by other women, adding yet another restriction to their string of radical measures ...