Governments moving to restore ties with the Taliban risk legitimising oppression and deepening Afghanistan’s crisis, an independent UN human rights expert cautioned on Thursday, calling for a principled approach that defends the rights of women and girls.

The Taliban’s hard-line government in Afghanistan is making major inroads in garnering legitimacy abroad. Despite its extremist policies, the international community has accepted that the Islamist group is here to stay,

On April 22, 2025, a major terrorist attack took place in the Baisaran Valley of Pahalgam in Kashmir, in which 26 people were brutally killed by gunfire.

A local Taliban spokesperson in northern Afghanistan said that the Taliban leader had ordered the ban "to prevent immoral activities."

The tenuous peace between Pakistan and Afghanistan appears to have ended after days of escalating conflict that came to a head as Afghanistan accused its neighbor of carrying out airstrikes on its territory on Friday.

Qudrat Wasefi fled Kabul after the fundamentalist regime, with its violently enforced prohibition of music, returned to power in 2021. He’s part of a generation of refugees the world has largely forgo

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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana questioned whether the public's view of the Taliban was unfair in a conversation with family support workers, a public inquiry has been told.