Mujahid stated that Afghan-American Mahmood Shah Habibi is not in custody and no affiliated agencies have detained ...

A ban on smartphones in schools issued by Taliban authorities in southern Afghanistan came into force, students and teachers confirmed on June 18, over concerns of "focus" and "Islamic law." The ...

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 ...

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.

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?

The Taliban’s ban on playing chess in public was reported in May by local and international media, but it appeared that it had begun long before, implemented in stops and starts. Hassanzadeh told NPR ...

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

The Taliban have severely restricted women's rights in Afghanistan. "Afghanistan right now is kind of a jail for all those people living there," says Abdul Feraji, an investigative journalist from ...