These executions took place in three cities across the country, before tens of thousands of spectators on Friday. This was ...

Pakistan has expelled more than 80,000 Afghan nationals since the end of March, a senior official said, as part of a renewed ...

Public executions were common under Taliban rule (1996–2001), often held in sports stadiums before large crowds ...

which emerged from the chaos of a civil war following the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989. One of the most infamous images from their first rule depicted the 1999 execution of a ...

Afghanistan's Supreme Court said four convicted murderers were executed by order of Taliban authorities on Friday, bringing ...

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday ... first rule depicted the 1999 execution of a woman wearing a burqa in a Kabul stadium. She had been accused of killing her husband.

Four men were publicly executed for murder in Afghanistan, the Supreme Court said ... 1999 execution of a woman wearing an all-covering burqa in a Kabul stadium. She had been accused of killing ...