The directive by provincial Education Department in Kandahar applies to students, teachers and administrative staff ...

Need for a united front, business opportunities and China’s growing footprint among factors for changing calculus in South ...

The top Taliban leader has slammed President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Afghans, calling the United States an “oppressor.” ...

Aynullah Rahimi's family has for decades tended the old cemetery in Kabul reserved for non-Afghans, but since the country's ...

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is ...

The September 11th attacks in 2001 were quick to ignite America’s ‘Global War on Terrorism’. The main goal of this new ...

Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. fear deportation as the administration revokes some protections, despite Taliban threats and ...

India is cautiously normalising relations with the Taliban, reopening trade routes and issuing visas to Afghan nationals despite past support for the overthrown democratic government. This shift ...

He is, after all, currently living in Afghanistan, where 10 days ago, chess – his passion since childhood – was outlawed with an edict from the all-powerful Amr bil Ma’ruf wa Nahi ‘an al-Munkar (the ...

Dr. Najmussama Shefajo's clinic was flooded with new patients after the Taliban banned women from nursing and midwife ...

The Taliban issued a glowing eulogy for Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the group’s second emir, to mark the ninth ...

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