An American woman was freed by the Taliban after she, two British nationals and their Afghan translator were detained in Afghanistan earlier this year, according to a source with knowledge of the ...

Volker Turk, UN high commissioner for human ... it's impossible to comply with this absurd demand from the Taliban." Sadiqa (the pseudonym of another Afghan woman), aged 23, knows many young ...

The United Nations has strongly condemned the Taliban's ban on Afghan women working for NGOs ... if they employ women UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk expressed his alarm over the Taliban ...

UN human rights chief Volker Turk has said that Afghanistan's governing Taliban authorities must reverse their ban on Afghan women working for NGOs. Since the Taliban's return to power in August ...

A senior Taliban leader in Afghanistan has indicated that they will continue to provide refuge to anti-Pakistan militants, describing them as "guests" under the country's traditions. Taliban ...

The teenager had died in Kabul in a 2015 attack on civilians by a branch of the Islamic State, ISIS-K, which has been responsible for several deadly campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Indeed, the Taliban’s return to power was marked by attacks against the minority community in Afghanistan. In August 2024, the American Bar Association adopted a resolution urging all ...

From then on, the Taliban have ruled Afghanistan. On November 23, 2024, a train with 55 carriages carrying tons of cargo arrived in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The train began its journey in ...

Between the Taliban's return in August 2021 ... are respected and protected," UN rights chief Volker Turk said. Since 2021 Afghanistan has slipped from 122nd place to 178th in Reporters Without ...

By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan For most of the three years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, their erasure of women’s rights appeared to be setting ...

The Taliban's repressive policies and widespread rights abuses have made its unrecognized government in Afghanistan a global pariah. To boost its international image, the hard-line Islamist group ...

But 23 years after 9/11, the Taliban hold ... U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said this week. He added, “I shudder to think what is next for the women and girls of Afghanistan.