Women living under a regime which banned them from using their voice in public risk punishment to tell the world the brutal, bleak truth of life in Afghanistan.

The Taliban administration is in control of 39 Afghan embassies and consulates globally three years after it took over Afghanistan and the previous Western-backed government collapsed, the acting foreign ministry said on Thursday.

The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of the world’s most infectious and any unvaccinated groups of children where the virus is spreading could undo years of progress.

Three years after seizing power, the Taliban is cracking down on women’s rights. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, some hoped that its new rule would be much less extreme than the first time around,

The U.N. rights chief says the Taliban’s repressive control over women and girls is unparalleled and will jeopardize Afghanistan's future.

It was the “unveiling” video that triggered the nausea. Hashmatullah Shahidi and Tim Southee, the Test captains of Afghanistan and New Zealand, stood either side of a trophy contested last week by their two nations in a one-off match in India,