Women in Afghanistan learning to become nurses and midwives have been told not to return to classes by the Taliban government.

A Taliban official mocked Americans' reluctance to elect a female leader after Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory.

Human rights activists warn that women could be banned from having conversations with one another after the Taliban declared that women's voices as "awrah."

Nasir Tawhedi and his co-conspirator were arrested by undercover FBI agents as they tried to buy a rifle and ammunition in Oklahoma's Western District

The woman's divorce was canceled when she was about 17, but was overturned after her husband, a newly registered member of the Taliban, won the appeal.

On Tuesday, former President Trump confused the names of an Alaskan wildlife refuge and an air base in Afghanistan on national television

The black mushroom cloud had barely faded in Ghazni province before kids clustered around the edge of the crater created by the mine, one of the devices that kills a child every other day in Afghanistan.

Australia on Tuesday scrapped a T20 men's cricket series against Afghanistan later this year, saying the situation for women in the Taliban-ruled country was deteriorating.

Thousands of people are still sleeping in tents in Herat province after successive earthquakes in October destroyed or rendered uninhabitable 31,000 homes.

Zubaida travelled from the rural outskirts of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specialising in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common among pregnant Afghan women -- her death or her child's.

The error saw the email addresses of hundreds of people, including Afghan interpreters potentially eligible for relocation to Britain, openly included in the "to" field, rather than blind copied.

Myanmar produced an estimated 1,080 metric tonnes of opium -- essential for producing heroin -- this year, according to the latest report by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Since returning to power in 2021, Taliban authorities have vowed to end illegal drug production in Afghanistan and in April 2022 banned the cultivation of the poppy plant, from which opium and heroin are made.

Sunset light glints off what looks like the bright gold Dome of the Rock -- but the horizon is in Kabul, and the dome is a replica recently inaugurated in the Afghan capital.

Afghanistan coach Jonathan Trott believes the "sky's the limit" for his young stars who shone and then shattered mighty Pakistan at the Cricket World Cup on Monday.

The dawn quake hit around 30 kilometres (19 miles) north of the provincial capital of Herat, where thousands were spending a fourth night in the open after Saturday's quakes flattened their villages.

The businesses were given a deadline of one month, starting from July 2, after they were initially notified of the directive.

Prince Harry addressed the reports that stated that he had bragged about killing 25 people during war.

As the Taliban finds itself dealing with increasing resistance from rebellious entities and groups, their acting Defense Minister has criticized Pakistan on Sunday for reportedly allowing U.S. drones into the country.

al-Qaeda leader and Muslim jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was one of the masterminds of the September 11 attacks, was killed in Kabul, Afghanistan by an American drone strike, President Biden announced on Monday.

A 6.1 magnitude quake has struck Afghanistan and the Taliban is now requesting for help from the United Nations.

A report revealed that Donald Trump and Joe Biden's decisions were among the biggest factors in the rapid collapse of Afghanistan's armed forces.

Taliban rulers announced the closing of girls schools once again, just hours after reopening of classes Wednesday.

National security adviser, Jake Sullivan confirmed that the US is "actively working" to release an American citizen who the Taliban detained in Afghanistan in December.

A Kiwi reporter based in Afghanistan has turned to the Taliban for help after being stranded in the war-torn country as New Zealand bars her return amid its stringent coronavirus quarantine system.

A three-year-old girl has been reported missing after she was left unattended at a playground near her family's apartment complex.

The two-year-old Afghan boy named Navid, who sustained severe injuries from August's chaotic foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, has endured another week of uncertainty despite repeated reassurances of aid from British civil servants almost four months after the brutal attack.

Small-time pharmaceutical company Cpharm Australia found itself the focus of media attention after they were mistakenly cited as the firm that inked a $450-million deal with the Taliban regarding a cannabis processing plant.

Sharbat Gulla, a former Afghan refugee whose face was featured on National Geographic, is confirmed to have fled Afghanistan for Italy after the Taliban takeover of her country.

Members of Afghanistan’s women’s youth development soccer team touched down in Britain on Thursday after SKIMS founder Kim Kardashian West fully funded their plane tickets. The group had been stuck in Pakistan for weeks following their rescue out of Afghanistan.