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Kabul: In recent weeks, the Taliban have carried out inspections of girls' schools in the Kandahar province and expelled hundreds of pubescent female students, media reported. They have joined the estimated 3 million girls in Afghanistan…

Kabul: Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid has denied that Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar was in Afghanistan, and said he is, in fact, in Pakistan, Afghanistan's local media outlet Tolo News said. This comes as…

Kabul: Taliban urged the United States on Saturday to unfreeze Afghanistan's foreign funds and lift financial sanctions to help the war-torn country deal with its deadliest earthquake in more than two decades. Taliban Foreign Minister…

Kabul: Taliban forces in Afghanistan's Kandahar city have compelled the shopkeepers to instal their group's white flag in their shops and buildings. Health clinics and public baths have too been asked to follow the suit. Taking to…

Kabul: The men in the newsrooms in Afghanistan began covering their faces as the Taliban invasion and a sweep to power has born the everyday lives of Afghans, especially Afghan women. Suited and not a hair out of place, the male anchors…

Kabul: Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the country’s women to wear the all-covering burqa in public. “They should wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is traditional and respectful,” said a decree…

Kabul: The Taliban regime in Afghanistan on Saturday issued a decree to remove the Persian language from the Supreme Court bill. The new panel of the Supreme Court, which is written only in Pashto and English, the name of the Supreme…

Kabul: After Pakistan airstrikes in the Khost and Knar provinces of Afghanistan that killed a number of civilians, the Taliban regime warned the country of "bad consequences" in case of any future airstrikes inside their territory.…

Washington: The United States abruptly cancelled meetings with the Taliban in Doha that were set to address key economic issues, officials said on Friday, after Afghanistan's Islamist rulers reversed a decision to allow all girls to return…

Washington: Former Afghanistan finance minister Khalid Payenda, who once oversaw a US-supported $6 billion budget, is now driving Uber in America to support his family. Talking to The Washington Post he said he earns “a little over 150…