Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Afghan woman is checked by a nutritionist at a clinic run by the World Food Programme in Kabul - Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo The ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) – Dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, raising fears of future attacks following the shooting deaths of seven people in ...

Second-year nursing student Khadija could not sleep the whole night after one of her classmates posted on WhatsApp that the Taliban were planning to bar women from being educated as nurses or midwives ...

The Taliban's supreme leader has ordered a ban on women attending nursing and midwifery institutes, closing a rare avenue they had to pursue an education beyond the sixth grade, a human rights group ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas ...

UN experts issued a strong rebuke on Monday against a new Taliban policy banning female students from medical training in Afghanistan, which has been denounced for further eroding the rights of women ...

Ten years ago today, just a month after September 11, US military planes began bombing Taliban training camps in Afghanistan. Now, after $338 billion has been spent and 1780 American lives have been ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . But others are skeptical of these assertions. While U.S. officials have occasionally hinted that Taliban militants are receiving weapons from Iran, ...

Women in Afghanistan have been banned from training to become midwives in the latest crackdown unveiled by the Taliban. Trainee midwifery students, who have been ordered to no longer attend classes, ...