Afghanistan’s new laws, signed by the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, give animals ‘more rights’ than women as they legalise domestic violence.

A new penal code has been published by Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, which will legalise acts of physical punishment against women.

Under the Taliban’s penal code, which includes 119 articles, published on January 7, 2026, the penalty for animal abuse ...

Afghanistan's decision to overhaul its medicine market was meant to improve quality and boost domestic production, but industry specialists say the swift changes have led to a litany of problems. And ...

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway ...

Afghanistan's Taliban government said on Tuesday it had released three Pakistani soldiers captured during border clashes in October, in a move ...

The Taliban on Sunday freed a U.S. citizen from an Afghan prison, weeks after they said they had reached an agreement with U.S. envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an effort to normalize ...

Peter and Barbie Reynolds were released by the Taliban in September after being detained for seven-and-a-half months.

Women comprise less than a fifth of specialised physicians in the country, new decree risks shutting Afghan women out of ...

ISLAMABAD — An internet blackout hit Afghanistan on Monday, with local media reporting a potential nationwide cut of fiber-optic services as part of a Taliban crackdown on immorality. It’s the first ...

SLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Sunday freed a U.S. citizen from an Afghan prison, weeks after they said they had reached an agreement with U.S. envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an effort to ...