The Taliban suspended chess — during its first iteration of rule, and now, because it's "a means of gambling," the sports minister Atal Mashwani told the French news service, AFP.

Chess in Afghanistan isn't madly followed like cricket or the national game — buzkashi — a polo-like sport, except the jockeys have whips and they have to dash across a field holding the carcass of a ...

A former chess coach says a member of the Taliban vice squad told him: "Playing chess is forbidden. Buying a chess set is forbidden. Even watching it — is forbidden." Why was the game banned?

Chess in Afghanistan isn’t madly followed like cricket or the national game — buzkashi — a polo-like sport, except the jockeys have whips and they have to dash across a field holding the carcass of a ...

Khaled Ahmad Zekriya operates a splendid, if faded, embassy in Italy but, at odds with those running his country, can he remain in post?

When Kabul fell on August 15, 2021, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Italy and the UN agencies stationed in Rome was travelling ...