As director of the Taliban’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi has the unenviable task of raising revenue for the government of a wretchedly poor, isolated nation.

The Taliban issued a message on International Women’s Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights protected, even as the U.N. condemned ongoing employment and education bans.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The night the Taliban recaptured Kabul, and with it Afghanistan, is forever seared in Nazifa Hamdani’s memory. “Every girl in ...

The UN has denounced the Taliban’s repeated attacks on women’s rights, with the special representative saying: "We must stand with Afghan women as if our own lives depend on it — because ...

(New York) – The International Cricket Council should immediately suspend Taliban-run Afghanistan’s membership until women and girls can participate in the sport of cricket, Human Rights Watch ...

Uyghur separatist groups have consistently supported the Taliban in their two-decade ... The region voted overwhelmingly for independence from Papua New Guinea in 2019, but realizing this in ...

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport on August 16, 2021, in the rush to leave the country as the Taliban took over Wakil Kohsar Sharifullah appeared at the US ...

Mohammad Sharifullah has confessed to scouting out the route to the airport, where the suicide bomber later detonated his device among packed crowds trying to flee days after the Taliban seized ...

A legal challenge to the so-called gang patch ban has been compared the controversial legislation to Nazi Germany and the Taliban. Lawyer Chris Nicholls is asking the High Court at Wellington to ...