In 2018, Samira Asghari became the first representative from Afghanistan to join the International Olympic Committee. She has ...

During the past three years, the Taliban have gradually imposed limitations on Afghanistan’s Shia community, aiming to halt their religious activities, Zan Times has learned. The moves by the Taliban ...

First, her education was taken away. Then, a wedding was arranged – against her will – to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa was left facing an unthinkable choice. “I had two options: to marry a ...

She stepped outside her home as she had hundreds of times before. She did not make it to her class. She was standing by the roadside waiting for a taxi when a Taliban vehicle – a US-made Ford Ranger – ...

Recently, the Taliban recruited 600 young men from Panjshir into their Ministries of Interior and Defence. According to Tolonews, an additional 1,500 will soon be recruited to protect the Taliban’s ...

Cheryl Benard’s recent commentary on the end of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghan refugees has outraged many Afghans. She argues that Afghanistan is not perfect, not “the Riviera,” but ...

Seven months after the Taliban takeover, I was living with my husband’s family in a three-room apartment located in a remote township in Kabul. The window of my room opened onto the courtyard. That ...

Note: This story was updated on January 22 to include information from a new UNAMA report. Mursal* made sure to wear a long black hijab while covering her face with a black mask when she left work ...

The Ismailis, a branch of Shia Islam, are a small minority spread across several countries, including Afghanistan, Tajikistan, India, Kenya, and Tanzania. In Afghanistan, they have historically lived ...

In Madrid, at the sidelines of the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan, Zahra Nader, Editor-in-Chief of Zan Times, sat down with Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of ...

With the start of the 2026–27 academic year, the Taliban Ministry of Higher Education has once again compelled university students to sign a 14-point pledge. The contents of this pledge – had drawn ...

The Taliban introduced its new Penal Code of the Taliban Courts as a replacement for Afghanistan’s national penal code. Unfortunately, it lacks even the most basic formal and substantive standards of ...