UN Human Rights Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence on Wednesday condemned the execution ... murder in what is the first capital punishment carried out in public since the Taliban returned to power ...

Each man was brutally lashed between 35 and 39 times in front of Taliban officials, religious clerics, elders, and local ...

Nine Afghan men were lashed in public on Tuesday for crimes they committed under the country's new rulers. Since the Taliban ...

The Taliban on Tuesday publicly flogged nine convicted of robbery and "sodomy" in Ahmad Shahi Stadium in Kandahar.

Last month, the Taliban executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents returned to power. The execution was carried out with an assault ...

Kandahar: Four people accused of theft were amputated by Taliban in a packed football stadium in Kandahar. In a post on ...

Many Afghans now fear their country is reverting back to the brutal first rule of the Taliban when public executions, floggings and other punishments were meted out. Afghan journalist Tajuden Soroush ...

Last month, the Taliban executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents returned to power. The execution was carried out with an assault ...

ISLAMABAD — Nine men were lashed in public in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as punishment for different crimes under the country’s new rulers, a Taliban-appointed official said. The lashings ...