Most of UN Security Council backs statement demanding country's rulers ensure 'unhindered access for humanitarian actors regardless of gender'

Taliban claims to have improved security since storming back to power in 2021, but there have been scores of attacks, many claimed by local Islamic State chapter

British royal also takes flack in UK over revelations in new memoir 'Spare' about his military service: 'Flashman braggadocio'

Rights chief Volker Turk says policies excluding half of Afghanistan's population will destabilize country, with effects rippling beyond borders

Move sparks outcry, coming less than a week after Islamist authorities banned women from attending universities; Afghan women are effectively being squeezed out of public life

A look at the growing restrictions enforced by the radical group since its return to power

'We are doomed. We have lost everything,' one student says as hardline Islamists tighten restrictions on women; Washington vows 'consequences'

In a further indication of the Islamist authorities' intention of resuming previous hardline policies, officials execute man convicted of murder

Officials in Afghani militant group said to have rented heavy machinery and building materials to construction contractors hired by Qatari authorities

Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year women have lost most of their rights, jobs, chances at education and are subject to beatings for protesting