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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ten police were shot dead at a check post near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, in an attack claimed by the Pakistan Taliban. "The intense exchange of fire lasted for nearly an hour.

DC’s Afghan food scene is dominated by a few female power players. There’s Shamim Popal, who oversees the kitchen at Lapis, and the mini-empire of four Afghan restaurants—including Bistro Aracosia and ...

In Kurram, near the Afghan border, Pakistan has been helpless to stop the latest outbreaks of a sectarian conflict that goes back decades. By Zia ur-Rehman Reporting from Parachinar, Pakistan The ...

His parents wrote in to the court, setting out how their son’s mental health had sharply declined after his military service, leaving him with struggles managing his own finances. They also ...

The Afghan ministry for vice and virtue has directed media platforms in Maidan Wardak, Kandahar and Takhar provinces to not show images of “living things with a soul”, taken as meaning people ...