The shutdown came two weeks after the ruling Taliban cut off the internet in half a dozen provinces, saying they wanted to prevent “immoral acts.” By Elian Peltier Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan ...

Internet services in Afghanistan came back online Wednesday, restoring vital communication and web connectivity for residents two days after the Taliban government blocked web access nationally ...

Afghanistan is in the midst of a communications blackout, just weeks after Taliban authorities began severing fiber optic connections in multiple provinces, in what appears to be the Islamist regime's ...

Maryam has worked as an online interpreter since the Taliban banned women from most jobs in Afghanistan. But her livelihood is under threat after the hard-line Islamist group last week shut down ...

Two weeks after the Taliban signaled plans to ban fiber-optic internet, nearly all links to the outside world are cut. But the regime denied it is a “ban on the internet.” Afghanistan’s internet ...

Older generations remember the sound of dial-up internet from the 90s and early 2000s, but what was once the soundtrack to an era is coming to an end. On Sept. 30, AOL would discontinue its dial-up ...

Last week, the Taliban ordered an internet ban across several of Afghanistan’s northern provinces. On September 30, they fully shut down the internet, both mobile and fibre optic, nationwide. The ...

Not too long ago, Liberals were defending internet access as akin to a human right You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. First Reading is a ...

No reason was immediately given for why service resumed after a blackout rare in scope, even for a government that has drastically curtailed individual freedoms. By Elian Peltier Safiullah Padshah and ...

Scroll down to learn how your plan may be affected A LONG-STANDING internet provider is shutting down service today. The move marks a new chapter as the classic internet dial-up days officially come ...

The Taliban has denied implementing a nationwide internet ban, following a communications blackout across Afghanistan this week. In a statement made to Pakistani journalists on a chat group on ...

The quantum internet offers immense promise, as it aims to use things like superposition and entanglement to create a super-secure internet. These phenomena rely on qubits (quantum bits), and a new ...