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A female presenter for TOLOnews, Thamina Usmani, covers her face during a live broadcast at Tolo TV station in Kabul on 22 May 2022.

Afghan women TV presenters vow to fight after order to cover faces

Women television presenters on Afghanistan's leading news channels on Sunday vowed to speak up for their rights after being forced by Taliban authorities to cover their faces on air

Taliban delegates speak during talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents in Doha, Qatar on 12 September 2020

Taliban dissolve Afghanistan's Human Rights Commission

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan dissolved five key departments of the former US-backed government, including the country's Human Rights Commission deeming them unnecessary in the face of a ...

Afghan deputy prime minister Mawlavi Abdul Salam Hanafi speaks during a ceremony to raise the Taliban flag in Kabul, Afghanistan, 31 March, 2022

Taliban's first annual Afghan budget foresees $501 million deficit

Afghanistan faces a budget deficit of 44 billion Afghanis ($501 million) this financial year, the country's Taliban authorities said on Saturday without clarifying how the gap between expected ...

Afghan money changers wait for customers along a street near the currency exchange Sarai Shahzada market in Kabul on 15 May, 2022

Afghan money exchangers on strike after licence fee hike

Thousands of money exchangers shut shop across Afghanistan on Sunday after Taliban authorities imposed a steep hike in licence fees, the brokers' commission said, in a bid to slow down money ...

Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on 26 March 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls.

EU says Taliban ‘not listening’ to Afghans with girls’ school ban

The Taliban shutdown of girls’ education shows the hardline Islamists’ are not listening to the Afghan people and poses a major hurdle to international recognition of the new regime, a top European ...

Burqa-clad women walk along a street in Kandahar on 7 May, 2022

Afghan women defiant but feel ‘imprisoned’ by order to cover faces

Women in Afghanistan expressed defiance on Sunday after the Taliban issued a directive ordering them to cover fully in public, including their faces, or stay indoors, saying the change would ...

Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada.

Taliban announce women must cover faces in public

They added the ideal face covering was the all-encompassing blue burqa, which became a global symbol of the Taliban's previous hardline regime from 1996 until 2001.

This handout photograph taken on 1 May, 2022 and released by the Taliban Authorities shows Taliban's Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund addressing a gathering before Eid al-Fitr prayers, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at the former presidential palace in Kabul.

Afghan leader hails ‘security’ in rare appearance to mark Eid

Afghanistan’s supreme leader appeared publicly for only the second time in six years on Sunday, telling worshippers celebrating Eid al-Fitr the Taliban had achieved freedom and security since seizing ...

A Taliban fighter stands guard near the site of a blast in Kabul on 29 April, 2022

IS claims bus bombing in Afghan capital

The Islamic State on Sunday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a passenger bus that killed one woman in Afghanistan’s capital

An Ambulance is seen near the site of explosions at Khalifa Sahib Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan 29 April, 2022.

Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque

A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim ...

Map locating Mazar-i-Sharif, location of two bomb blasts on minibuses

Islamic State claims deadly bomb blasts on minibuses in Afghan city

The Islamic State group claimed two bomb blasts aboard minibuses that killed at least nine people Thursday in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif, a week after a deadly explosion at a Shiite mosque in the ...

Afghan Taliban's Acting Minister of Defense Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob speaks during the death anniversary of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the late leader and founder of the Taliban, in Kabul, Afghanistan on 24 April, 2022

Afghan defence minister says will not tolerate ‘invasions’

Afghanistan’s acting defence minister said on Sunday that the Taliban administration would not tolerate “invasions” from its neighours after protesting against airstrikes it says were conducted by ...

Map of Afghanistan locating Imam Sahib, in the northern province of Kunduz.

Mosque blast kills 33 in Afghanistan

A bomb blast ripped through a mosque during Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan, killing 33 people including children, just a day after the Islamic State group claimed two separate deadly ...

An Afghan youth plays PUBG game on his mobile phone at a park in Kabul on April 21, 2022.

Taliban order TikTok, PUBG ban in entertainment crackdown

The phone apps are popular among Afghans, who have been left with few outlets for entertainment since the hardline Islamists returned to power last year and banned music, movies and television soaps.

Blast tears through Sunni mosque in northern Afghan city Kunduz

Blast tears through Sunni mosque in northern Afghan city Kunduz

International officials and analysts say the risk of resurgence in militancy remains in Afganistan

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