In 2018, Samira Asghari became the first representative from Afghanistan to join the International Olympic Committee. She has ...

First, her education was taken away. Then, a wedding was arranged – against her will – to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa was left facing an unthinkable choice. “I had two options: to marry a ...

She stepped outside her home as she had hundreds of times before. She did not make it to her class. She was standing by the roadside waiting for a taxi when a Taliban vehicle – a US-made Ford Ranger – ...

Note: This story was updated on January 22 to include information from a new UNAMA report. Mursal* made sure to wear a long black hijab while covering her face with a black mask when she left work ...

During the past three years, the Taliban have gradually imposed limitations on Afghanistan’s Shia community, aiming to halt their religious activities, Zan Times has learned. The moves by the Taliban ...

This report has been published in partnership with the Guardian. The Taliban have ordered a sweeping ban on the use of smartphones by government officials – in what some analysts say could foreshadow ...

Recently, the Taliban recruited 600 young men from Panjshir into their Ministries of Interior and Defence. According to Tolonews, an additional 1,500 will soon be recruited to protect the Taliban’s ...

The Taliban introduced its new Penal Code of the Taliban Courts as a replacement for Afghanistan’s national penal code. Unfortunately, it lacks even the most basic formal and substantive standards of ...

It was around 2 p.m. on Friday when I learned about the Taliban’s notice making their hijab rules mandatory and warning of the arrest of women who don’t dress accordingly. That same afternoon, my ...

Seven months after the Taliban takeover, I was living with my husband’s family in a three-room apartment located in a remote township in Kabul. The window of my room opened onto the courtyard. That ...

Sabza with the her daughter, who was promised to her future husband when she was three, to repay a debt of about £3,570. Photograph: Neda Noran and Atousa Azar for Zan Times This report has been ...