The Taliban has sacked hundreds of men from Afghanistan’s security forces because they are unable to grow beards. Thousands ...

While women bear the brunt of Afghanistan's gender apartheid, the Taliban also recently introduced new regulations for Afghan men that include minimum beard lengths and restrictions on what they ...

In the past year, over 280 men have been removed from security forces for not having a beard, as well as more than 13,000 Afghans detained for other various 'immoral acts' Afghan Taliban's Deputy ...

Afghan men ride motorcycles along a road in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Aug. 28. ... “Now, everyone is growing a beard because we don’t want to be questioned, humiliated,” he said.

Matt didn't look like the pictures in the news. We first met in the winter of 2017 in a metal Quonset hut in the Afghan desert. The first thing I noticed about Matt was his beard: Like the other ...

KABUL: The Taliban's morality ministry dismissed more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral acts" in ...

Listening to music, smoking hookah, and getting a Western-style haircut are all punishable acts under the suffocating rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to a new UN report.

Taliban morality police in Afghanistan said Tuesday that they had "seized and destroyed" more than 21,000 musical instruments over the past year as part of a crackdown on what they called anti ...

Upon seeing foreigners, the Talib, with an unkempt beard and layers of ill-fitting sweaters, ordered us out of the car. For more than an hour, my colleague Bryan Denton and I waited on the trailer ...

While women bear the brunt of Afghanistan’s gender apartheid, the Taliban also recently introduced new regulations for Afghan men that include minimum beard lengths and restrictions on what they ...