The Taliban has banned women from training as nurses and midwives in Afghanistan, striking another blow to female health and education. The ban was announced on Monday during a meeting in Kabul by ...

“We know the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] has been training Taliban fighters in the use of surface-to-air missiles,” said a military official in Afghanistan with knowledge of the situation. “As ...

Countless Afghan women were seen sobbing as a man read out a Taliban decree banning them from medical care and training in a viral video on social media. A user on X posted the clip on December 3, ...

Local officials in Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan, have said that Al Qaeda has a strong presence in the province’s districts alongside the Durand Line and in border areas between ...

UN experts issued a strong rebuke on Monday against a new Taliban policy banning female students from medical training in Afghanistan, which has been denounced for further eroding the rights of women ...

The State Department on Wednesday condemned the Taliban’s newest order preventing women from studying medical courses, citing years of mistreatment. “This directive, the latest in a series of efforts ...