Karima Moqimi was a final-year medical student in the 1990s during the Taliban’s first period of rule in Afghanistan. She was pregnant with her first child when she went to her university to take her ...

Afghan burqa-clad women and children refugees deported ... The activists risk imprisonment or death if they return to life under the Taliban in Afghanistan. Afghans have sought refuge in Pakistan ...

Two of the men were shot around six to seven times by a male relative of the victims in front of spectators in Qala-i-Naw, ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to ...

Surah An-Nur (24:30-31) instructs both men and women to be modest and guard their private parts, certainly not their heads or faces, but the Taliban interprets this to support the wearing of a burqa ...

Taliban fighters stand guard as a burqa-clad woman walks along a street in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP via Getty Images file) “Vice and virtue” laws passed in August ...

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban's return to power.

Amnesty International called on the Taliban authorities to halt public ... the 1999 execution of a woman wearing an all-covering burqa in a Kabul stadium. She had been accused of killing her ...

Afghanistan's supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a mandate over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully, ideally with the traditional all-covering burqa.

Pakistan has expelled more than 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said, as part of a renewed ...