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Ever since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in 2021 with promises that -- this time -- they would be more moderate, they have played a deceitful game. The Taliban […]

When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, one of its first actions was to bar women and girls from participating in sports publicly. It came as no surprise […]

Byline: Rick Noack KABUL - Three years into Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls are finding ways online to take back some of what was taken from them in 2021. [...]

In May 2022, nine months after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, I visited a girls' secondary school that was still open in the north in spite of a ban [...]

Byline: Doug Saunders and Zia Ur Rehman Doug Saunders is The Globe and Mail's international affairs columnist. Zia Ur Rehman is a freelance journalist and researcher based in Karachi. The [...]

Khalida Popal, the former captain of the Afghanistan women's national soccer team, woke up on the floor of her apartment near Copenhagen, drenched in sweat and shaking. She had collapsed [...]

Byline: Gerry Shih ACHIN, Afghanistan - Delawar Torkhan, flanked by rifle-toting soldiers, rounded up the opium farmers and spoke loudly enough to ensure he was heard by everyone: the cowering [...]

The Taliban administration extended a ban on women working in aid organizations to the United Nations, putting at risk one of the country's last sources of badly needed aid. KABUL, [...]

Byline: Rick Noack and Haq Nawaz Khan The United Nations said Wednesday that Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned Afghan women from working for the organization in the country, effective immediately, [...]

In a time of famine and money shortages, meals are a rallying point -- and a topic of worry -- during a season of change in Afghanistan. The last lunch [...]

Byline: Susannah George - - - Correction: A headline and a story summary on earlier versions of this article mischaracterized the status of some remarried women in Afghanistan by saying [...]

Byline: Susannah George KABUL - After her stepfather sold her into marriage at the age of 13 to support his drug habit, the young Afghan woman fought for years to [...]

Byline: SAYED SALAHUDDIN; Staff As a pioneer of Afghanistan's women's rights movement, Mahbouba Seraj realized in the run-up to the Taliban's takeover in 2021 that her fight for gender equality [...]

Walking down its streets a year ago was like wandering into the modern ruins of another empire come and gone from Afghanistan. Now, the Taliban have adopted the former diplomatic [...]

Since the Taliban administration banned women from aid work, many groups have suspended their operations in the country and warned of permanently shutting down if the ban remains. For years [...]

Byline: Susannah George ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Taliban hard-liners are consolidating their control over Afghanistan with the recent bans on women's education and work, overriding the wishes of some Taliban officials [...]

The government's decree, barring women from work in local and international relief organizations, threatens critical assistance for millions of people. Several international aid organizations have temporarily suspended their programs in [...]

Byline: Susannah George, Claire Parker and Miriam Berger ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have issued another sweeping ban on women in public life, barring female Afghan employees from working [...]

A letter from Afghanistan's Ministry of Economy warned that it would revoke the operating licenses of any organizations that defied the decree. The Afghan government on Saturday barred women from [...]

Byline: Susannah George and Claire Parker ISLAMABAD - The Taliban has issued another sweeping ban on women in public life, barring female Afghan employees from working at international organizations. The [...]

The new Afghan government has returned to its hard-line stances from the 1990s, instituting public beatings and executions as well further restricting women's rights. The Afghan government on Tuesday barred [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger Afghanistan's Taliban-led government banned women from studying in public and private universities Tuesday, the latest in the extremist group's ongoing attacks on women's rights in the nearly [...]

Byline: John Hudson and Tyler Pager The Taliban released two Americans detained in Afghanistan on Tuesday in an arrangement U.S. officials described as a 'goodwill gesture' from the longtime U.S. [...]

Byline: Pamela Constable KABUL - The Taliban regime, stepping up the pace and severity of Islamic punishments, carried out its first public execution this week since taking power 15 months [...]

Byline: Pamela Constable KABUL - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Thursday blocked transmissions by two news radio stations funded by the U.S. government, saying they had repeatedly 'failed to adhere' to [...]