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Taliban Say Female Afghan TV Presenters Must Cover Faces on Air

The Taliban have ordered female Afghan TV presenters and other women on screen to cover their faces while on air.…

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Afghanistan: Girls’ Despair as Taliban Confirm Secondary School Ban

Teenage schoolgirls in Afghanistan have told the BBC of their growing desperation as they continue to be excluded from school…

3 years ago

Taliban Supreme Leader Makes First Public Appearance

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public appearance…

3 years ago

Taliban Says Afghan Girls Will Return to Secondary Schools Soon

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs has said girls will be allowed to return to secondary schools soon. Saeed Khosty, a…

3 years ago

US Says Taliban Talks in Doha Were ‘Candid and Professional’

The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior U.S. and Taliban officials since the hardline group…

3 years ago

Taliban Names Afghan UN Envoy, Asks to Speak to World Leaders

The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their…

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Taliban Says Men and Women to Study Separately in Gender-segregated Universities

Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at the postgraduate level, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and…

3 years ago

Taliban to Ban Women’s Sports in Afghanistan

Australia’s SBS TV has quoted a Taliban spokesperson as saying that women’s sports — and women’s cricket specifically — will…

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Taliban Form All-male Afghan Government of Old Guard Members

The Taliban on Tuesday announced an all-male interim government for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the…

3 years ago

Growing Concerns for Panjshir Residents as Taliban Claims Victory

For the last three weeks, Ahmad Massoud, the son of the late anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, has been leading…

3 years ago

Taliban, Opposition Fight for Afghan Holdout Province as Top US General Warns of Civil War

Taliban and opposition forces battled on Saturday to control the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, the last Afghan province holding…

3 years ago

Taliban Says Afghanistan ‘Free Nation’ as It Hails US Exit

The Afghan group says the US defeat is lesson for everyone else, and says it wants ‘good relations’ with the…

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Kabul Airlift in Final Phase as US Warns of More attack; Taliban Ready to Take Over Airport

U.S. forces are in the final phase of leaving Kabul, ending two decades of involvement in Afghanistan, and just over…

3 years ago

Taliban Blocks Kabul Airport to Most as Foreign Airlifts Wane

Taliban forces have sealed off Kabul’s airport to most Afghans hoping for evacuation, as the United States and its allies…

3 years ago

Taliban Says Hundreds of Fighters Heading to Holdout Province

The Taliban has said “hundreds” of its fighters were heading to the Panjshir Valley, one of the few parts of…

3 years ago

Distressed Afghan Women Gather at Kabul Airport Now Controlled By Taliban, Throw Children to British Soldiers

As every day passes, the relief operation gets more and more urgent and desperate, as the British military tries to…

3 years ago

Taliban Vow to Respect Women’s Rights ‘Under Islamic Law’

The Taliban vowed Tuesday to respect women's rights, forgive those who resisted them and ensure a secure Afghanistan as part…

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Seven Killed in Kabul Airport Chaos as Taliban Patrols Afghan Capital

Thousands of Afghans rushed into Kabul’s main airport Monday, some so desperate to escape the Taliban that they held onto…

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Taliban Control All Key Afghan Cities Except Kabul

The Taliban have moved closer to retaking full control of Afghanistan, with the capital Kabul now the only major city…

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Diplomats Hasten Exit from Afghanistan as Taliban Near Kabul

The first US troops are arriving in Afghanistan to help diplomatic staff and others leave, as many countries scramble to…

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