Taliban

FILE PHOTO: Afghan women fry traditional cookies inside a bakery in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 5, 2024. REUTERS/Sayed Hassib/File Photo
World+Biz

Afghanistan's Taliban govt says new morality law will be 'gently' enforced

Women must cover completely and not raise their voices in public, according to a 35-article law announced Wednesday by the justice ministry.

Raw opium from a poppy head is seen at a poppy farmer's field on the outskirts of Jalalabad, April 28, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Parwiz/File Photo
World+Biz

UN warns of overdose deaths after Afghan opium production plummets

An Afghan woman carries empty containers to fetch water in Nahr-e-Shahi district in Balkh province, Afghanistan, August 6, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ali Khara/File photo
Middle East

UN-led Doha meeting with Taliban sparks outcry over women's rights

Taliban fighters are seen at the Taliban flag-raising ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 31, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
Europe

Russia invites Afghanistan's Taliban to major economic forum

File Photo: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a joint news conference in Moscow, Russia February 18, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin via REUTERS
World+Biz

Russia says it is working on removing Taliban from its terrorist list

Photo: BSS/AFP
South Asia

Taliban says it hit back at Pakistan after air strikes in Afghanistan kill 8

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their home alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
World+Biz

Most UN Security Council members demand Taliban rescind decrees seriously oppressing women and girls

Released taliban hostage and Austrian national Herbert Fritz speaks with the media after disembarking from a plane, in Doha, Qatar, 25 February 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Arafat Barbakh
World+Biz

Taliban releases Austrian far-right activist held in Afghanistan

Taliban government’s foreign ministry spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi. File Photo: Twitter
South Asia

Taliban call for 'regional stability' as Iran-Pakistan tension grow

Afghan special unit pictured with British special forces as they worked together
World+Biz

'Abandoned heroes': Afghan troops face return to Taliban after UK 'betrayal'

People are seen outside the Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi, India, September 29, 2023. File photo: REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
South Asia

Afghan embassy in India shuts down citing lack of support, Taliban pressure

Afghan boys wave an Afghanistan flag as they board a truck while heading back with their family to Afghanistan from Pakistan, at the Chaman Border Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border in Balochistan Province, in Chaman, Pakistan November 10, 2023. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed/File Photo
South Asia

Taliban minister raises issue of refugee assets during Pakistan visit

File photo of Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud. Photo: BSS
Politics

BNP declaring programmes like Islamic State, Taliban: Hasan