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The government was once again ordering the stoppage of all female work in institutions not controlled by the Taliban, it said in a published letter.
Afghan refugees appeal to President Trump to exempt them from an order suspending relocations; some say they risked their lives to support U.S. troops.
The swap that freed two Americans was brokered before President Biden left office Monday, according to a Trump administration official.
Russia’s parliament advances a bill that could set the stage for Moscow to remove the designation of the Taliban in Afghanistan as a terrorist group.
A Taliban official says official media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws.
Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped. No reason was given for the suspension.
The Taliban says it’s mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and bare faces in public.
Many Taliban leaders are under sanctions, and no country recognizes them as Afghanistan’s legitimate rulers.
A Taliban delegation is attending a United Nations-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan after organizers said women would be excluded from the talks.
The Taliban have deliberately deprived at least 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans, UNESCO says.