The Taliban authorities that rule Afghanistan have imposed a severe interpretation of Islamic law on the population, heavily restricting all aspects of women's lives.

An Afghan women's group is welcoming the decision by the International Criminal Court to arrest Taliban leaders for their ...

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he has requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials over the repression of women. The Taliban have barred women from jobs, ...

A Chinese man was killed as he traveled in northeastern Afghanistan while working for a mining company, Taliban officials ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order this week suspending the U.S. refugee admissions program has left in limbo tens of ...

Millions of California residents were placed under a red flag warning through Thursday amid threats of further fires with ...

Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power have appealed to U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they ...

The death toll from wildfires raging near Los Angeles has risen to 28, authorities said Tuesday, as new fires prompted ...

Afghans cleared for resettlement in the United States are fearful that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump ...

The Taliban's Foreign Ministry in Kabul did not name the two US citizens, but said they were exchanged for Khan Muhammad, who was arrested in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar two decades ago ...

"The terrorists get a vote, and they're voting to keep fighting," former Trump counterterrorism envoy Nathan Sales told ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no ...