The Latest Breaking News from Taliban

Senior UN officials in Afghanistan to press for women’s rights

The delegation includes Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Sima Bahous, executive secretary of UN Women.

Al Jazeera · Jan 18, 2023

Murder accused who posed with knife ‘revels in violence’, court hears

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai is accused of murdering Thomas Roberts outside a Subway sandwich shop in Bournemouth last year.

The Independent UK · Jan 18, 2023

Deputy U.N. chief has talks in Afghanistan on women's rights

The United Nations deputy secretary-general discussed women's rights with Afghanistan's acting foreign minister on Wednesday after the Taliban authorities banned most female aid workers and stopped women and girls from attending high school and university.

Reuters · Jan 18, 2023

Taliban bought blue check marks on Twitter, report says

The Taliban and supporters of the Afghanistan rulers have been buying up blue-check verifications on Twitter, according to a report.

Tribune News Service · Jan 17, 2023

Morning Mail: multimillion-dollar GST challenge from councils, shark extinction fears, Greta Thunberg detained

A legal battle led by Philip Ruddock’s Sydney council could see hundreds of millions in GST payments refunded

The Guardian - AU · Jan 17, 2023

Pakistani FM Zardari slams previous government’s TTP policy

Bhutto Zardari says his government has reversed the previous government’s ‘wrong approach’ towards the Pakistan Taliban.

Al Jazeera · Jan 17, 2023

NGOs resume some Afghan operations with women workers

Three foreign aid groups restore work in health sector after Taliban bans women from working with NGOs in Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera · Jan 17, 2023

Afghanistan: Nine men publicly flogged by Taliban in sports stadium

Taliban fighters in Kabul in 2021

Evening Standard · Jan 17, 2023

Davos 2023: Qatar says engagement with Taliban needed despite 'disappointing' actions

Qatar's foreign minister said on Tuesday that recent measures taken by Afghanistan's Taliban-led administration were "very disappointing" but that Doha would continue engaging as the only way forward to achieve change on the ground.

Reuters · Jan 17, 2023

Nine men lashed up to 39 times each in public in brutal Taliban punishments

Each man was brutally lashed between 35 and 39 times in front of Taliban officials, religious clerics, elders, and local people, but the reason for their beating is still unknown

Daily Mirror · Jan 17, 2023