Two LGBTQ+ women imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan are being tortured 'daily' according to their friends and partners.

The Taliban detained a British couple in Afghanistan over a small matter and the courts will rule on it based on Islamic law, a government spokesperson said Tuesday, adding: “God willing, their ...

In the old and new Great Game, Afghanistan has held a central position. Peter Hopkirk, in his pathbreaking book The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, chronicled the 19th-century ...

In January, one senior official left Afghanistan after speaking out against the ban that has denied education to more than 2 ...

They are expected to be tortured to reveal the names of other LGBTs," the CEO of Afghan LGBT+ network Roshaniya said.

In return for the release of an American, the U.S. dropped bounties on three top-level Taliban officials, including ...

CONSIDERING the generally poor state of Pak-Afghan relations, the recently concluded three-day visit of Pakistan’s special representative on Afghanistan to Kabul, and the subsequent comments ...

"Pakistan's Special Representative on Afghanistan, Ambassador Muhammad Sadiq, provided a detailed briefing on his recent visit to Kabul, highlighting key engagements with Afghan authorities and ...

Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a Jan 2008 attack on Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including US citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the state department ...

Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including U.S. citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the State ...

“The new generation would never accept wearing a burka, because of the design and colour,” said 23-year-old Tahmina Adel in the Afghan capital, Kabul.