The Latest Breaking News from Taliban

Flying through Afghan airspace is proving to be the safest option for international airlines, with Iran’s missile bombardment of Israel causing a noticeable shift in flight patterns

The ruling follows Austria’s refusal to recognise the refugee status of two Afghan women.

FRANCE 24 spoke to Marzieh Hamidi, a former taekwondo champion for Afghanistan who has been a refugee in France since 2021, when the Taliban returned to power. In late August of this year, she posted a video on social media denouncing "gender apartheid" in her home country. Since early September,…

Afghan journalists have reported hundreds of cases of abuses by government officials, including torture and arbitrary detention, as well as tightening censorship since the Taliban authorities returned to power.

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North Korea is condemning the United States and its allies for “stirring up military confrontations still further” by engaging in war games in the Asia-Pacific region and discussing regime change in the diplomatically isolated nation

The woman's divorce was canceled when she was about 17, but was overturned after her husband, a newly registered member of the Taliban, won the appeal.

Since returning to power three years ago, the Taliban have been enforcing oppressive laws that violate people’s freedoms and human rights, especially those of women and girls.

Afghanistan's embassy in London closed on Friday after Taliban authorities cut ties with diplomatic missions set up by the previous government in Kabul and fired its UK staff.