"All have an obligation to robustly protect, monitor and preserve these artefacts" and sites in Afghanistan, the Taliban authorities declared in February that year. They are "part of our country's ...

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 ...

The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons ...

Arpan Rai sits down with Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan’s only remaining female ambassador, to talk about the Taliban’s new ...

The Trump administration has reportedly told some Afghan refugees to self-deport back to the Taliban-controlled country.

Fast-forward to present day and history is repeating itself. Once again, the Taliban are in power and have banned girls from secondary school and women from university. They have banned us from parks, ...

The Afghan people not only defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, but also caused its fall in Central Asia. This was ...

He said the bomb targeted the office of the peace committee, which publicly opposes the Pakistani Taliban. The committee also helps solve disputes among residents. Wazir said some of the wounded ...

Recently uncovered Buddhist statuettes must be “protected and passed down to future generations, because they are part of our history,” he said. These relics would have likely met a different fate ...