Taliban security personnel look on as Afghan refugees arrive at the Islam Qala border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran ...

When a cockfight begins in Kabul, the noise is immediate. Roars of “Hit!” and “Kill!” erupt among spectators as two birds ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban’s restrictions on women and girls, has ...

Split by the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education in Afghanistan, the sisters hoped to reunite in the US. But new ...

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?

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'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 ...