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Opium cultivation rose by 19 percent in Afghanistan this year, the UN reported Wednesday, despite a Taliban government ban that almost eradicated the crop.

Poppy planting remains far below pre-ban levels, United Nations reports, despite rise of 19 percent year on year.

A Taliban government minister says Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women

The real and brutal impact of war as revealed by the men who fought it and their families at home. Here's how to watch "Helmand: Tour of Duty" online, on TV and from anywhere.

A striking collection of shows include 60s shop workers turned into icons of glamour, awestruck visions of nature and scenes of female oppression in Afghanistan

Prohibition comes two months after the Taliban banned women’s voices in public spaces

Afghanistan's morality ministry is gradually introducing a ban on images of living beings in media, with multiple provinces announcing restrictions and some Taliban officials refusing to be photographed or filmed, journalists across the country told AFP. Since mid-October the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice…

As a former senator, I’ve seen how major parties conspired with the military to manipulate elections and crush opponents. This can’t go on, says Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar

Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack