Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule.

Businesses in Afghanistan's western city of Herat are witnessing a sharp decline in customers as women increasingly avoid ...

Afghanistan's minister in charge of vice and virtue defended on Monday the crackdown on women's dress code in the western ...

HERAT, Afghanistan — Businesses in Afghanistan’s western city of Herat have suffered from a downturn in female customers ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers deny shooting at protesters and claim no women or girls have been arrested because they're all following strict dress code rules.

The demonstration, in the western city of Herat, was broken up after police are alleged to have opened fire.

The Taliban are tightening the screws on women's clothing, shooting at protesters and ordering even their own officials to stop using smartphones. Behind the regime's omnipresent control, there are ...

A crackdown by Afghan authorities on demonstrators in western Afghanistan has left at least three people injured, eyewitnesses say ...

The Taliban captured Herat, Afghanistan’s third-biggest city, without a fight – Copyright AFP/File – Thousands of Afghan soldiers thronged the governor’s ...

Residents in the western Afghan city of Herat told the AFP news agency they had witnessed several women detained by the Taliban government's morality police, in a crackdown over clothing which has ...