A Taliban official mocked Americans' reluctance to elect a female leader after Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory.

The December ban on college education for women has led some to turn to online options. But that pption comes with its own set of problems.

Afghanistan's universities have become a hotbed of resistance to the Taliban, with female students staging protests against the militant group's sweeping restrictions on women. In response, the Taliban has cracked down on several university campuses across the country, violently breaking up demonstrations and expelling students accused of political activism.

A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country.

While both sides accused the other of firing first, the Taliban said one of their border officers was killed and another wounded.

The country's deadliest quake in two decades strikes in the night as many people sleep in their beds.

Afghanistan's Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban on Sunday announced a ban on harvesting poppies, even as farmers in some parts of the country began extracting the opium from the plant that is needed for making heroin.

Afghans are giving food to the hungry, clothes to the needy, and medical care to the sick: ‘I just wish I could work at night, too.'

WHEN THE TALIBAN took over Afghanistan in August of last year, Fereshteh Forough feared that the group would close her school in Herat, the country’s third-largest city. Code to Inspire, an NGO Forough founded, was teaching computer programming to young Afghan women, and the Taliban oppose secondary education for women.

Four years ago, 13-year-old Rabiha, her mum and four siblings landed at Melbourne airport. They had spent three days in transit, fleeing Afghanistan. Meeting them at the airport was Rabiha's father, who they were reuniting with for the first time in five years.

After forcibly sweeping back to power in Afghanistan in August, the Taliban executed over 100 former police and military members, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. The 25-page report, titled "No Forgiveness For People Like You," describes how the Taliban rounded up former members of the Afghan National Security Forces, which includes police, intelligence service members, military personnel and militia.

Undercover Taliban agents—often clean-shaven, dressed in jeans and sporting sunglasses—spent years infiltrating Afghan government ministries, universities, businesses and aid organizations.

Some came to Canada long before the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan. Others scrambled to get on the last flights from Kabul in August. All have allies in the military who’ve helped them on their journeys. These are their stories.

Parwana Malik, a 9-year-old girl with dark eyes and rosy cheeks, giggles with her friends as they play jump rope in a dusty clearing. But Parwana's laughter disappears as she returns home, a small hut with dirt walls, where she's reminded of her fate: she's being sold to a stranger as a child bride.

Killers said they were Taliban but government denies responsibility and says two of them have been arrested

An Afghan volleyball player on the girls’ national team was beheaded by the Taliban — with gruesome photos of her severed head posted on social media, according to her coach.

Afghanistan has one of the fastest rates of crypto adoption, according to US-based blockchain analysis company Chainalysis. In its 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index, it ranked Afghanistan 20th out of 154 countries in terms of crypto adoption.

Every repressive regime, however mighty and powerful, has its nightmares. For the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the worst nightmare has proven to be the country’s women who are articulate, aware of their rights, dream of building careers or women who have displayed unmatched resilience and have marched boldly on the streets to reclaim their right to freedom, despite knowing that they are fighting a regime that is regressive, patriarchal and anti-democratic in orientation. 

Afghan women around the world are protesting the Taliban's new hijab requirement in schools by posting photos of themselves wearing colorful traditional dresses on social media.