In a March broadcast on Afghan state media, Supreme Leader Mullah Haibatlullah Akhundzada declared that the Taliban will restore public flogging and stoning as punishments, particularly against ...

The return of barbarism to Afghanistan ... Since returning to power, the Taliban have brought back public executions, banned girls from attending school beyond sixth grade, and carried out ...

During the Taliban’s first rule, public executions were common, with only a handful carried out since their return to power. Corporal punishment — mainly flogging — has been common ...

The Taliban previously said girls continuing their education went against their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, and that certain conditions were needed for their return to school.

The Taliban have barred women from education beyond sixth grade, most jobs and public spaces like parks. They have implemented corporal punishment and public executions, practices seen during their ...

More than 3 million Afghans are still in Pakistan, facing forced return to a country already grappling with poverty and the aftermath of war. Isolated under Taliban rule, Afghanistan has suffered ...

A group of panelists spoke out about human trafficking and violent crime at the 6th annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Conference. Two men were killed in an early Friday, May 3, shooting ...

The return of barbarism to Afghanistan ... Since returning to power, the Taliban have brought back public executions, banned girls from attending school beyond sixth grade, and carried out ...

The Taliban have barred women from education beyond sixth grade, most jobs and public spaces like parks. They have implemented corporal punishment and public executions, practices seen during ...

The Taliban previously said girls continuing their education went against their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia, and that certain conditions were needed for their return to school.