Local schools were ordered shut on Tuesday out of fear of more kidnappings as a hostage situation at a police station taken over by jailed Pakistan Taliban fighters dragged into its third day.

More than 30 Pakistan Taliban militants were holding several officers hostage on Monday after breaking free from custody and seizing a police station.

The Taliban have set new rules banning Afghanistan women from entering the capital’s public parks and funfairs.

It’s been a busy, busy weekend in KZN Not only has ‘the Taliban’ risen to power – but the faction is already plotting against Ramaphosa.

Following an order by Taliban authorities, Afghan women have been forced to cover their faces – a rule that includes TV presenters.

After a long period of closing high schools and colleges for girls in Taliban, Afghan’s interior minister promised to return girls to school

A small group of women took the streets in Afghanistan to protest the Taliban’s order that they need to cover up fully in a burqa.

Students are left heartbroken as the Taliban has ordered secondary girls schools in Afghanistan to shut down just hours after they reopened.

Some public universities opened in Afghanistan Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes that officials said would be segregated by sex.

Rescue workers on Tuesday searched for survivors after an earthquake in a remote western region of Afghanistan killed at least 26 people and damaged hundreds of houses, officials said.

Taliban fighters paraded through a northwest Afghan city in a show of strength at the weekend, days after reinforcements were sent to quell unrest over the detention of a popular commander.

The Taliban have ordered shop owners in western Afghanistan to cut off the heads of mannequins, insisting the human figures violate Islamic law.

The mobile library is one of 5 buses leased by a local organisation called Charmaghz, established by Freshta Karim, an Afghan graduate

Taliban government leader Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund is among those targeted by the US sanctions, which stood firm on the measures

Kim Kardashian has funded an evacuation flight for female footballers and their families from Afghanistan.

Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy will star in a new drama about three special forces team members who return to Afghanistan on a rescue mission.

“With the Taliban now seemingly implementing some moderate reforms… there is a high probability (IS-K) will try to capitalise.”

“The situation is that the Taliban don’t respect anything: not journalists – foreign and local – or women,” she said

Mohadessa’s beauty salon offers Aghanistan women an oasis, providing income and indulgence – in resistance to Taliban seizure

Cavusoglu added that he urged the Taliban to give girls open access to education and allow women to return to their jobs

The well-known Serena, a luxury hotel, popular with business travellers, in Kabul has twice been the target of attacks by the Taliban

A group of Taliban members — including senior figures — inside the mosque grounds came under fire after the blast, taking two casualties.

Their salvation came thanks to “a joint operation between the American and Portuguese authorities,” the Portuguese government said

Sporting assignments do not come much tougher than Lance Klusener’s role as head coach of Afghanistan as he tries to plan a World Cup campaign with a team who are 12 000km away.

During the Taliban’s first stint in power from 1996 to 2001, the hardliners banned flamboyant hairstyles and insisted men grow beards.