The Taliban has banned women from training as nurses and midwives in Afghanistan, striking another blow to female health and education. The ban was announced on Monday during a meeting in Kabul by ...

“We know the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] has been training Taliban fighters in the use of surface-to-air missiles,” said a military official in Afghanistan with knowledge of the situation. “As ...

Countless Afghan women were seen sobbing as a man read out a Taliban decree banning them from medical care and training in a viral video on social media. A user on X posted the clip on December 3, ...

UN experts issued a strong rebuke on Monday against a new Taliban policy banning female students from medical training in Afghanistan, which has been denounced for further eroding the rights of women ...

The State Department on Wednesday condemned the Taliban’s newest order preventing women from studying medical courses, citing years of mistreatment. “This directive, the latest in a series of efforts ...

Local officials in Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan, have said that Al Qaeda has a strong presence in the province’s districts alongside the Durand Line and in border areas between ...

A new report by the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team lends international credence to a claim Pakistan has made for years: Afghanistan has once again become a staging ground for ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . But others are skeptical of these assertions. While U.S. officials have occasionally hinted that Taliban militants are receiving weapons from Iran, ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) – Dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, raising fears of future attacks following the shooting deaths of seven people in ...

The People's Daily, a newspaper produced by China's ruling communist party, has either been hilariously pranked or has out-reported every news outlet in Afghanistan to secure the scoop of the century.

Women in Afghanistan have been banned from training to become midwives in the latest crackdown unveiled by the Taliban. Trainee midwifery students, who have been ordered to no longer attend classes, ...

A bullet-hole is seen in a car windscreen in front of Mohamed Merah’s apartment building, in Toulouse, Friday March 23, 2012. France’s prime minister fended off suggestions Friday that anti-terrorism ...