Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan members of the U.N. political mission in the country, the United ...

Afghanistan has the worst women’s rights crisis in the world, U.N. Women said, with the Taliban issuing over 100 decrees targeting women and girls since regaining power in 2021.

Human Rights Watch says Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members from a local organization focused on women's and children's rights ...

The UN mission has urged the Taliban “to ensure compliance with the privileges and immunities of the United Nations and its officials,” Haq said.

Five years into their hard-line rule, the Taliban find themselves in crisis at home and abroad. Afghanistan has a track record of defeating superpowers. The mujahedeen humbled the Soviet Union in the ...

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch called for the release of two UN staffers and six NGO workers in Afghanistan following a string of Taliban detentions in recent ...

August 15, 2026 will mark five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Over the last five years, the ...

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members of the nongovernmental group Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) for nearly a month, Human Rights Watch ...

Afghanistan remains the only country in the world to ban girls from secondary education and women from attending university.

Five years after the Taliban seized power, women and girls in Afghanistan have been systematically stripped of their rights, UN agencies said on Wednesday. De facto authorities have issued more than ...

Every day, even after the Taliban barred Afghan girls from education, Fariba went to school. The teenager left the house with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A girl fills canisters of water from a tap with non-potable water to use at home on September 17, 2025 in Kabul, Afghanistan [Elke ...