Tag: Taliban
Taliban order Afghan shop owners to behead mannequins
The Taliban have also stepped up raids on liquor sellers, rounded up drug addicts and banned music
The loss of life in a twenty-year war
How could a mostly unpaid guerrilla band of fighters defeat the greatest, most powerful sophisticated well-paid army in the world?
Afghan refugees deserve welcome, Australian and Irish bishops urge governments
Church leaders warn that Afghan refugees are at risk of persecution because they oppose the Taliban or the Taliban opposes their way of life
An Afghan appeals to Pope Francis: Save a Catholic family stuck...
Afghanistan’s Christian community is comprised mostly of converts from Islam and is the country’s largest religious minority group
Taliban strike conciliatory tone, pledge peace, women’s rights under Islam
Women would be allowed to work and study and "will be very active in society but within the framework of Islam," said a Taliban leader