Afghanistan's Taliban government on Wednesday said it hoped for a "new chapter" in relations with the United States after Donald Trump's presidential election victory.

In its latest edict, the Taliban banned women hearing each other’s voices in public. ...

The Taliban banned the cultivation of narcotics in 2022, causing a drop in opium production last year. However, this year it rose by 19%, according to a report by the UNODC.

Plus: Kazakhstan inks billions in new deals with China, Slovakia’s Fico goes to Beijing, another Taliban-China announcement, ...

Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation grew in 2024 despite a Taliban-imposed ban, according to a United Nations report. Cultivation increased by an estimated 19 percent this year, the report published ...

Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban ...

Director Najiba Noori films her mother Hawa and her niece Zahra in their aspirations to emancipate themselves from patriarchal traditions,” says a synopsis of the doc that is world premiering at IDFA.

Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they were aware the Maldives government had recalled its ambassador to Pakistan after he met with the Afghan Taliban government's top diplomat in Islamabad without ...

One Step Away is a roughly ten minute long documentary. The film, which was written and produced by SCAD alumni, had its West Coast premier on October 24 at the La Femme International Film Festival in ...

Women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are currently barred from most of the ordinary activities their counterparts elsewhere in the world see as their natural right – studying, working, going to a salon ...

Putin was riveted to Biden/Harris declaration of the expectation of Russian invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. This is a date that will live in infamy as stupid or treasonous.

Pakistan’s lower house of the parliament passed legislation to extend the tenures of military chiefs from three to five years, over the objections of opposition lawmakers who say the legislation was p ...