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 ...

Taliban has instructed Afghan men to compulsorily maintain long beards and follow a dress-code of traditional Afghan salwar ...

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

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

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 ...

The men, Asghar Husinai, Jalil Yaqoobi, Ashore Akbari and Daud Rasa, all in their 20s, recently on a local YouTuber's chat ...

Four young men in Herat, Afghanistan, were detained by the Taliban for dressing as characters from the TV show Peaky Blinders ...

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 ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1130255/130255" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Robert ...

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 ...

The final evacuation of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan played out in real-time across screens back in 2021, so it makes sense that it would become fodder for new action flicks on the big screen.