The Afghan Taliban say they banned beauty salons because they offered forbidden services
The Taliban says beauty salons have been banned in Afghanistan because they offered services forbidden by Islam and caus...
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Traders troubled after Taliban shut Afghan-Pakistan crossing
The main crossing on the Afghan-Pakistan border is shut for the third straight day after Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ea...
Taliban divisions deepen as Afghan women defy veil edict
A new Taliban decree that demands women cover up from head to toe in public, showing at most their eyes, has left many A...
Talks with Taliban begin in Norway
Three days of talks between a Taliban delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Norwegian governm...
In Afghan hospital, unpaid doctors and rigid Taliban clash
The Taliban-appointed supervisor of a small district hospital outside the Afghan capital has big plans — to the dismay o...
Taliban agree to new polio vaccination across Afghanistan
U.N. agencies say Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have agreed to a nationwide polio vaccination campaign for the first time...
Now in power, Taliban set sights on Afghan drug underworld
Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers have their sights on stamping out widespread drug addiction in the country, even if by...
US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression
Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afgh...
US: Taliban's 'reduction of violence' deal to start tonight
A senior U.S. State Department official says the countdown to the signing of a peace agreement between the Taliban and t...
