KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have banned families and women from restaurants with gardens or green spaces in Afghanistan's northwestern Herat province, an official said Monday. The moves ...
The Department for Promotion of Virtue, Prevention of Vice and Hearing Complaints in western Herat says it has prevented the marriage of ...
Some recovered drug addicts in western Herat province, highlighting the harmful consequences of narcotics, have urged young ...
Afghan authorities have launched two significant infrastructure projects in western Herat province, while three landmark developments have been completed and handed over to the public, officials ...
A month ago, one of Afghanistan's most famous warlords vowed to defend his city from the Taliban as he called for locals to join the fight. But on Friday Ismail Khan was in the Taliban's hands as ...
Workers in Afghanistan's Herat Province are still producing silk the traditional way, separating the fabric from the silkworm cocoons in boiling pots and weaving on wooden looms. But the industry is ...
HERAT, Afghanistan -- Shortly before he was due to attend the Loya Jirga national assembly last June, Alhaj Mohammad Rafiq Shahir says he was arrested, thrown in jail, and beaten for two days for ...
The Taliban have taken over the Afghan city of Herat, capping three weeks of furious fighting in which both men and women took up arms to defend their city while many residents fled gunfights and ...
Violence against women is endemic in Afghanistan; with services closed by the pandemic, those working with abused women are terrified for their clients Every morning Marzia Akbari, a 25-year-old ...
The Taliban has displayed four bodies of alleged kidnappers, and hung one of them from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan’s Herat, with one commander saying it was meant to deter ...
Clinging to hope that finding survivors was still possible, Afghan rescuers and villagers kept digging through rubble on Tuesday in western Herat province, three days after one of the deadliest ...