The Taliban has codified slavery and formalized a class-based justice system in Afghanistan through a newly approved criminal procedure code signed by its supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. Legal ...

At first glance, the criminal code appears to be a typical legal framework. But the state’s goal is not to protect citizens, ...

Since the Taliban's return in August 2021, Afghan women's basic freedoms have been systematically curtailed, transforming ...

An Afghan who fought against Soviet forces still visits a museum celebrating the resistance, but, in keeping with rules by ...

Major powers have renewed diplomatic links while others seek deals to deport migrants. And all the while gender repression is getting worse, warns UN special envoy and former UK prime minister Gordon ...

Traveling through Afghanistan meant constantly navigating invisible lines, limits, and unspoken rules that shaped every movement. Taliban-controlled areas surrounded the cities, and even a few ...

Americans are being held in near-solitary confinement by a Taliban counterintelligence unit whose personnel include former detainees from Guantanamo Bay and the US-run Bagram prison.

Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception ...

In Afghanistan, economic crisis under the Afghan Taliban regime has intensified, with the public trapped in poverty and unemployment. According to Hasht-e Subh daily, millions of people in the Taliban ...

Interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani has weirdly become the unlikely champion of what passes for ‘reform,’ if such a word can ...

She condemned Taliban’s oppression of women and girls and stated that Australia is continuing legal action against Afghanistan for violations of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of ...

Afghanistan's Taliban's newly issued Criminal Procedure Code has triggered alarm among rights groups about dividing Afghan society into rigid classes, where religious elites (mullahs) will enjoy ...