The Taliban are doubling down on their ban on women’s education.

A spokesman says half the country is enduring severe hunger throughout the year.

An Afghan soldier seeking U.S. asylum who was arrested while trying to cross the Mexico border has been freed and reunited with his brother after spending months in immigration detention

A delegation led by the highest-ranking woman at the United Nations has urged the Taliban during a four-day visit to Afghanistan to reverse their crackdown on women and girls

Taliban officials say 78 people have died in just over a week during Afghanistan's harsh winter, adding to the country's humanitarian crisis

Mannequins in Kabul stores now have their heads cloaked.

The Taliban was urged to reverse all “oppressive” restrictions on women.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that killed at least five people near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital

Afghan women and girls who once played a variety of sports say they have faced intimidation from the Taliban, including visits and phone calls warning them not to engage in their sports

A police spokesman in Kabul says an explosion near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital has killed five civilians and wounded a number of others

The Afghan Taliban have killed eight Islamic State group fighters and arrested nine others in raids against the militants' hideouts in Afghanistan

Officials say Pakistani police in multiple raids detained at least 1,200 Afghan nationals, including women and children, who had entered the southern port city of Karachi without valid travel documents

Some women staffers say they will try to continue their work under the radar.

The Islamic State group says it carried out a car bombing in northeast Afghanistan that killed a local police chief

The Taliban has ordered all non-governmental groups to suspend employing women.

ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos spoke to Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, about the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s rights and access to education.

Blocking girls from elementary schools is the latest blow to female rights.

The minister of higher education in the Taliban government has broken his silence over his decision to ban women from universities

Taliban security forces in Afghanistan's capital city are upholding a higher education ban for women by blocking access to university campuses

Plus, China reports its first deaths from COVID-19 in weeks after dropping some pandemic restrictions, and fans flood the streets of Buenos Aires to celebrate Argentina’s World Cup win.

The Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education has ordered all private and government-run universities to ban women from attending.

The Taliban's Ministry of Higher Education has sent an order to all private and government-run universities banning women from attending.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have banned female students from universities effective immediately

A Taliban government spokesman says the death toll from a fuel tanker explosion in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital has climbed to 31

A local official in Afghanistan says a fuel tanker explosion in a tunnel has killed at least 19 people and injured 32

China has advised its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country “as soon as possible,” following a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants the previous day on a Chinese-owned hotel in the heart of Kabul

A Taliban official says a hotel catering to foreign visitors in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul was attacked and three of the assailants were killed

The Supreme Court of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan says that 27 people were lashed in public in a northern province for alleged adultery, theft, drug offenses and other crimes

ABC News' Phil Lipof spoke with Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Matthew Heineman about his new documentary "Retrograde" about the final months of the war in Afghanistan.

Afghan girls will be allowed to take their high school graduation exams this week even though they have been banned from classrooms since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021

A Taliban official says a roadside bomb went off near a bus with government employees in northern Afghanistan, killing six people

A U.N. team of experts says the Taliban treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan may amount to a crime against humanity and should be investigated and prosecuted under international law

A local official says that the Taliban have lashed three women and nine men in front of hundreds of spectators in a provincial sports stadium in central Afghanistan

A Taliban official says women are banned from using gyms in Afghanistan

An advocacy and research group says Britain paid compensation to the families of at least 64 children killed by U.K. military action in Afghanistan

The couple are suing the Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby.

A Taliban official says a 5.1 magnitude earthquake has jolted the Afghan city of Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province

A suicide bomber struck an education center in a Shiite area of Kabul on Friday, killing 19 people and wounding 27, according to officials.

One year later, an Afghan family reflects on their escape from Afghanistan and what life is like now in the United States.

A year after the chaotic American withdrawal, Afghan refugees must grapple with the new reality the U.S. exit created.

The Hospitality for Humanity program provides food and classes to street kids in Kabul.

In the 12 months since the Taliban seized power families resort to dire measures to put food on the table, hospitals are over capacity, and women are forced to give up their rights.

ABC News’ Ian Pannell reports on the brave women and girls struggling to cope after the Taliban erased many of their rights when they seized power in Afghanistan last year.

Marking the one-year anniversary of the fall of Afghanistan, "Leaving Afghanistan" takes viewers inside the final days of the U.S. military withdrawal through the eyes of those on the ground.

Most relatives of the Kabul drone strike victims killed a year ago are still not in U.S., as had been promised by the U.S. government.

Martha Raddatz reports on one family's journey after fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan on "This Week."

Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., discusses the anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Ukraine and the migrant crisis.

Reuters has followed the Mohammadi family for their first year in the United States.

On the one-year anniversary of the Taliban taking Kabul, a congressional Republican report harshly criticizes the Biden administration for the Afghanistan withdrawal.

ABC News Pentagon reporter Luis Martinez and ABC News national security and defense analyst Mick Mulroy discuss the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and the humanitarian crisis.