Taliban shaves off hundreds of officers for lack of beards
The Taliban has fired hundreds of men from Afghanistan's security forces due to their inability to grow beards, claiming that ...
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Raped activist defies Taliban despite threat of video release
The Guardian has obtained video evidence from a former prisoner, showing the gang rape of a female Afghan human rights ...
Islamic State carries out over 2,700 terrorist attacks in 2021
Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa saw the greatest number of ISIS incidents.
Starving Afghan parents selling off their children
Many of Afghanistan’s growing number of destitute people are making such desperate decisions as their nation spirals into a vortex ...
UN suggests paying Taliban $6M to provide security
Plan to subsidize Taliban fighters' monthly wages to guard UN facilities underscores ongoing insecurity in Afghanistan following US pullout.
Afghan girl defies Taliban by translating forbidden books
"The Taliban is against any culture, music, television, social media, and the scene of women walking on the streets," she ...
Clashes in Iran-Afghanistan 'border misunderstanding' reportedly over
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency says reports over the capture of an Iranian border camp by the Taliban are false.
Targeted killings put Taliban's claims of safer Afghanistan in question
US officials said to be concerned by increasingly open conflict between Taliban and ISIS. "After decades of war, it will ...
Woman now thought to be Afghanistan's last Jew flees country
Distant cousin of Zebulon Simentov, who branded himself "last Jew in Afghanistan," flees country for Albania following Taliban takeover with ...
Taliban rewards families of suicide bombers with cash, offers of land
Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is wanted as a "specially designated global terrorist" by the US, meets bombers' families, ...