Marjan Sadat

There are rules against music, but the rules don’t always to the Taliban, whose enforcers are proving keener on shaking down wedding parties than heeding their dogma.

Iran and the Taliban had seemingly entered a new chapter in their relations, with two common enemies — America, and after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 — the Islamic State group. But their relationship is far from stable as recent border skirmishes illustrate.

The Taliban banned female students first from secondary schools, then later from universities in August 2021. Afghan talk about what their lives have become without schooling.

Many members have gone on the run in Afghanistan, where being gay is now a crime: by law, “homosexuality” is punishable by death.

Mullah Mohammad Dawood Muzamil, along with two other civilians, were killed in an office in Mazar-i-Sharif city.

An old problem has returned in Afghanistan. But some women who refuse forced marriages are trying to resist, or flee the country.

Former spy chiefs of Pakistan, Afghanistan talk to the Star about regional dangers now that the Taliban’s return to Kabul has upended the status quo.

Former spy chiefs of Pakistan, Afghanistan talk to the Star about regional dangers now that the Taliban’s return to Kabul has upended the status quo.

Taekwondo girls train secretly underground in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. “I fight challenges with my kicks.”

New rules on work see women ‘erased from society,’ says a former student, removed from university, whose job is now also disappearing.