Afghanistan

About two dozen Afghan women chanting “bread, work, freedom” protested in the capital on Sunday against the Taliban’s harsh restrictions on their rights. “Education is my right! Reopen schools!” chanted the protesters, many of them wearing face-covering veils, as they…

In Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year, according to the U.N., as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children are brought into hospital wards. U.N. and other…

At least 14 people were killed and 32 others wounded in four explosions that rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday, authorities said. In Kabul, at least five worshippers were killed and 17 others wounded after…

The United Nations Security Council called on the Taliban to “swiftly reverse” policies restricting human rights and freedoms for Afghan women, in a unanimously adopted statement amid fears the Taliban was setting the clock back on women’s rights. The move…

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have started to enforce a new order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on air. The Information and Culture Ministry announced that the policy was “final and non-negotiable”. “It…

The Shirazi Religious Authority did not stand idly by in front of the tragedies that the Afghans are subjected to, especially in their ongoing extermination at the hands of terrorist movements. Afghanistan witnessed a horrific terrorist bombing in the city…

In recent weeks, press reports confirmed the incursion of Bedouins into Hazara and Shia areas in Ghazni Province with the support of the Taliban movement.According to local sources in Ghazni, Bedouins in some parts of the province are “demanding ownership…

Taliban forces prevented female college students from attending classes on Wednesday in Kabul, apparently turning them away because their headscarves were deemed too colorful. Videos shared on social media show Taliban members stopping a group of women at the entrance…

An explosion hit a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, injuring at least three worshipers, according to the local police. The blast occurred at a mosque in Police District 5 when worshippers were holding Friday prayers…

The Taliban terrorists have ordered women in Afghanistan to cover up head to toe and only go outdoors in the company of male chaperones, intensifying the worst aspects of the misogynistic rule they displayed their first time in power and…