UN Human Rights Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence on Wednesday condemned the execution ... murder in what is the first capital punishment carried out in public since the Taliban returned to power ...

Each man was brutally lashed between 35 and 39 times in front of Taliban officials, religious clerics, elders, and local ...

Taliban authorities have executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, in the first public execution since the former insurgents took over Afghanistan last year, a spokesman said.

A senior Afghan official has pardoned a man sentenced to death for murdering the politician's father, a court said Sunday, days after Taliban authorities carried out the first public execution ...

Nine Afghan men were lashed in public on Tuesday for crimes they committed under the country's new rulers. Since the Taliban ...

Kandahar: Four people accused of theft were amputated by Taliban in a packed football stadium in Kandahar. In a post on ...

Despite international condemnation, the Taliban has resumed the flogging and the public execution of criminals following a ...

THE Taliban have cut the hands off four petty thieves in a football stadium, it was reported. It comes after the hardline ...

Nine men were lashed in public in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as punishment for different crimes under the country's new rulers, a Taliban -appointed official said. The lashings were the latest ...

In December, the Taliban staged their first public execution of a convicted murderer, effectively reviving the practices of the previous Taliban rule in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. The ...

The extreme actions from the Taliban come as it moves to enforce their extremist interpretation of Islam after seizing power ...