As the Taliban starts enforcing draconian new rules on women in Afghanistan, it has also begun to target a group that didn’t see tight restrictions on them coming: Afghan men.

“Taliban accused these men of theft, their faces were colored with black color — to embarrass them,” tweeted Bilal Sarwary, one of Afghanistan’s leading journalists, ...

As Taliban starts restricting men, too, some regret not speaking up sooner. Beside imposing severe rules on women, new laws require men to grow fist-length beards and bar them from imitating non ...

A BIZARRE campaign has been launched to lure tourists to terrorist-infested Afghanistan – featuring a sick spoof hostage ...

Afghan men praying at the Great Mosque in Herat on March 30, 2025. Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images. But the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has emphasized the primacy of Islamic ...

Afghanistan's Taliban codified a long set of rules governing morality, including compulsory beards for men and facial covering for women. The Taliban has announced a wide-ranging law that all but ...

Men rarely speak out to protest the Taliban's stripping away of the rights of girls and women. A new study finds that many believe those lost rights should be restored.

The Taliban believe that women lose their "value" if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a view shared by Afghan religious scholars. Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif, the spokesman for the ...

A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden.

Men rarely speak out to protest the Taliban's stripping away of the rights of girls and women. A new study finds that many believe those lost rights should be restored.

Men rarely speak out to protest the Taliban's stripping away of the rights of girls and women. A new study finds that many believe those lost rights should be restored.