The BBC spends the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what their lives look like under the Taliban government.

Malala Yousafzai’s birthday and the day she spoke to the UN, is observed as Malala Day each year. Named after the Nobel Prize ...

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned chess until further notice due to fears the game is a source of gambling. Officials said the game has been prohibited indefinitely until its ...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recorded as many as 28,000 Afghans leaving Iran in a single day in June, ...

The Taliban government has not been formally recognised by any other country. The surveillance system the BBC is shown in Kabul features the option to track people by facial recognition.

The Taliban has told the BBC it will endeavour to release two British nationals who have been arrested and held in Afghanistan "as soon as possible". Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75 ...

The Taliban has told the BBC it will "endeavour" to release two British nationals who have been arrested and held in Afghanistan "as soon as possible".

The BBC is paying money to the “Taliban’s propaganda wing” to ensure that it can broadcast in Afghanistan. Since militants seized Kabul in August 2021, the Islamic fundamentalist regime has ...

The Taliban say 90,000 CCTV cameras in Kabul will reduce crime but there are fears for human rights.