President Donald Trump plans an executive order Thursday to facilitate the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, ...

Abdul Qahar Ghorbandi, head of Afghanistan’s Taxpayers Services Directorate, has the hard job of raising money in an ...

In a crowded control centre, surrounded by dozens of TV screens, the Taliban's police force proudly shows off its newly-acquired network of 90,000 CCTV cameras - used to watch over the day-to-day ...

T he United Nations special rapporteur for Afghanistan has called on Britain to take more refugees from the Asian country and ...

The Taliban government has not been formally recognised ... and whether or not they have a beard or a face mask. "On clear days, we can zoom in on individuals [who are] kilometres away," says ...

For the most extremist wings of the Taliban, which are especially influential at present, cricket is an enterprise in which Afghan men with contoured beards or clean-shaven faces, engage in sport ...

“The Taliban spokesperson said the sight of women ... If you are a man [you’re expected to] have a beard – which may not be what they want to do – and dress in a certain way or walk ...