World & Nation
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.
After the Taliban barred women from most education and jobs. half of Afghanistan’s population is locked out of work when the country’s economy is worse than ever.
The Taliban leader issued the warning at a time when the country is in the grip of humanitarian crises and is isolated on the global stage.
The school year in Afghanistan has started but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade.
The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says women are scared to leave their homes alone because of Taliban rules.