Stores in Herat province have begun beheading mannequins after the Taliban government’s Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recommended that vendors implement the measure because they consider them to be figures against Islamic law.
Italy granted refuge to Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed “Afghan girl” whose 1985 National Geographic photo became a symbol of her country’s wars, Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s office said Thursday.
Parwana’s father, Abdul, who has been living in a refugee camp with his family for four years, had to sell his 9-year-old daughter in order to eat.
Islamic State militants detonated an explosion at the entrance to a military hospital in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, a senior Taliban official said. It was one of the most brazen ISIS attacks since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the summer.
The Taliban hanged a man’s corpse in the western Afghan city of Herat, a witness said Saturday. Shocking images show a large crowd gathered in Herat’s main square looking at a lifeless body, his white clothes covered in blood, hanging from a crane.
The Taliban’s effective ban on women’s work has sparked outrage over the dramatic loss of rights following the exclusion of millions of female teachers and girls from secondary education.
Girls were unable to return to secondary schools in Afghanistan today after the country’s new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and teachers to return to the classroom.
A family in Afghanistan has made the heartbreaking decision to sell their daughter to keep her from starving to death.
The Taliban on Tuesday appointed an interim government dominated by its own ethnic Pashtun leaders, setting aside its own pledges to form an inclusive administration with members of the country’s various groups.
At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days.
An Afghan YouTuber has been killed in an airport bombing amid the collapse of the government, just days after saying goodbye to her viewers in what was the last video she recorded, CNN reports .
Joe Biden also said he would meet the Aug. 31 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, despite the Kabul attack that killed 12 U.S. servicemen.
The double bombing at Kabul airport was carried out with a vehicle bomb, followed by gunfire. Everything points to a suicide attack. Several U.S. soldiers are wounded and killed, although the total number of casualties is unknown.
The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs late Wednesday tweeted a warning to U.S. citizens at the gates of Kabul airport, advising people to “leave immediately.”
instances of extreme violence directed at members of the LGBTQI+ community in Afghanistan’s, while LGBTQ Afghans say they fear for their lives now
The Taliban violently broke up a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person as they quelled a rare public show of dissent. Meanwhile, the militant group met with former officials of the ousted Western-backed government.