The arts and cultural sector in Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented crisis, as the simple act of artistic expression has now effectively been criminalised by the Taliban. While the international ...

For the Taliban religious police, four young friends' passion for Thomas Shelby's flat cap fashion was a step too far in the ...

Taliban has instructed Afghan men to compulsorily maintain long beards and follow a dress-code of traditional Afghan salwar ...

The Taliban has arrested four young Afghan men for "promoting alien culture” because they wore outfits like those of the ...

Afghan female artists refuse to be silenced. Despite Taliban bans on music and art, they work in exile to keep their cultural ...

In a bizarre turn of events, the Taliban, Afghanistan’s infamous political and militant organization, has detained a set of ...

The group, all in their early twenties, was reportedly taken into custody in Herat’s Jibrail township after walking the ...

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Rachel Lehr says Afghan women are much less liberated than American women. “They value interdependence rather than the independence which we value in American culture,” said Lehr, a research scholar ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A female-led radio station in northeastern Afghani-stan has resumed its broadcasts after officials shut it down for a week for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a ...

The final evacuation of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan played out in real-time across screens back in 2021, so it makes sense that it would become fodder for new action flicks on the big screen.