Rina Amiri, former U.S. Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights, speaks with Christiane Amanpour about the Taliban’s extremely restrictive treatment of women in Afghanistan.

Rights groups said Tuesday’s meeting undercuts the E.U.’s human rights obligations and could endanger people in Europe and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers deny shooting at protesters and claim no women or girls have been arrested because they're all following strict dress code rules.

(Corrects title of Jeff Crisp in paragraph 12, making clear he is no longer Head of Policy Development and Evaluation at UNHCR) By Amina Ismail and Inti Landauro BRUSSELS, June 23 (Reuters) - An Afghan Taliban delegation met EU officials in Brussels on Tuesday for the first time,

With secondary education and most jobs out of reach, thousands of Afghan women have turned to entrepreneurship as the only path to make money and maintain a social life.

A Taliban delegation held talks with the EU in Brussels on Tuesday on stepping up the return of failed asylum-seekers to Afghanistan, in an unprecedented visit fiercely criticised by rights advocates.

A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the deaths of three American soldiers.

A man applying for refugee status, who claims he fled his bombed village from the Taliban as a teenager but was denied his application here because Irish authorities did not believe he was from Afghanistan,

The meeting is expected to focus on ways to deport some Afghan migrants, despite warnings from rights groups that such engagement could put them at ​risk.

Zahra Joya had been five years old when the Taliban first seized power. When they did it a second time, in August 2021, she was 28. One day she was having lunch with a fellow journalist in Kabul; the next,