The most worrisome flash point in South Asia today lies not between the nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan but to the west, along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A simmering conflict ...

The Taliban's new criminal code in Afghanistan bans non-Islamic teachings and imposes harsh penalties like two years in jail for mocking religious rulings, with punishments scaled by social status, ...

Pakistan defence minister directly blamed the Taliban government in Kabul for harbouring and facilitating Tehreek-e-Taliban ...

Afghanistan leads asylum requests in France with 13,800 applications and 78.8% acceptance rate in 2025 refugees, ...

A video has gone viral claiming to show the Taliban clamping down on their persecution of Afghan women. Sky's Yalda Hakim explains the significance of the footage and what it says about women's rights ...

Data refutes Donald Trump’s statements in which he downplayed NATO’s support in the conflict, which lasted from 2001 to 2021 ...

The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code ...

More than 70,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled a remote region in northwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan over uncertainty of a military operation against the Pakistani Taliban, ...

A recent attack by Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) against Chinese nationals in Afghanistan has raised questions, with analysts ...

Taliban officials deny holding a U.S.-Afghan citizen, who witnesses and U.S. officials say was detained by Afghanistan’s intelligence services in 2022.

It is thought the error may have put up to 100,000 people at risk of death or serious harm from the Taliban. Lawyers ...

The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code ...