The arts and cultural sector in Afghanistan is facing an unprecedented crisis, as the simple act of artistic expression has now effectively been criminalised by the Taliban. While the international ...

For the Taliban religious police, four young friends' passion for Thomas Shelby's flat cap fashion was a step too far in the ...

The Taliban has arrested four young Afghan men for "promoting alien culture” because they wore outfits like those of the ...

Afghan female artists refuse to be silenced. Despite Taliban bans on music and art, they work in exile to keep their cultural ...

Rachel Lehr says Afghan women are much less liberated than American women. “They value interdependence rather than the independence which we value in American culture,” said Lehr, a research scholar ...

In a bizarre turn of events, the Taliban, Afghanistan’s infamous political and militant organization, has detained a set of ...

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The group, all in their early twenties, was reportedly taken into custody in Herat’s Jibrail township after walking the ...

KABUL (Reuters) Interred a quarter century ago in Pakistan, the remains of Afghan poet Ustad Khalilullah Khalili now lie in a forlorn corner of Kabul University, brought here to be reburied so that no ...