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Those without a male relative to act as a mahram are in legal limbo and unable to travel long distancesHasina* cannot send her two daughters to school, because they are teenagers and high school is banned for girls in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.But she …
Read MoreThe Afghan rulers’ ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from withinThe Taliban official’s wife apologised for keeping her visit brief. She needed to get her teenage girls ready to fly to Doha, the Qatari cap…
Read MoreGirls forced to stop attending school under Taliban are taking huge risks to keep studying – as are the teachers helping themWhen inspectors arrive at the school gate, which is most weeks now, the older girls know the drill. They slip away from their c…
Read MoreDespite their promises of peace and stability, the country is on its knees, and its people are desperateMaryam* is near the top of her sixth grade class in Kabul, which under Taliban rule means that her education should be ending in a few months.But th…
Read MoreThe Kabul property hit by a US drone was familiar. It turned out Dan Smock had something in common with al-Qaida’s leaderThe balcony in Kabul where the head of al-Qaida was killed was a spot Dan Smock knew well. It used to be his – when he worked in Af…
Read MoreSenior commanders caught between hopes for international recognition and pressure from their own ranksSenior Taliban commanders weighing up how to respond to the US assassination of al-Qaida’s leader in Kabul are caught between their hopes for internat…
Read MoreSherpur, with its gaudy ‘poppy palaces’, has hosted warlords, US contractors and now the Taliban’s top tierThe leader of al-Qaida spent the last weeks of his life less than 500 metres from the swimming pool and bar where British diplomats relaxed durin…
Read MoreOil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincingThe smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a non…
Read MoreOil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincingThe smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a non…
Read MoreAllegations include 160 killings of ex-government officials and security forces, torture and punishmentsTaliban authorities have presided over widespread human rights abuses since they took control of Afghanistan last August, the UN said, including 160…
Read MoreAid collapse after Taliban took control means just 2% of people have enough to eat, UN saysIn his seven decades, Mehrajuddin has been a police commander, a fighter for the mujahideen, a district governor and a prosecutor, and even briefly worked in Eur…
Read MoreA Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured prisonersThe cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles that the CIA used to run its shadow war in Afghanistan had been lined up and incinerated beyon…
Read MoreAmid upheaval across the country, it remains unclear whether a new government will forbid music as it did 25 years agoThe shutters have been down all along Kharabat Street, the storied heart of Afghan musical life, since the Taliban swept into Kabul in…
Read MoreMore than 1,000 have fled across the border, and hundreds more have handed over weapons to the TalibanLast autumn, with the departure of American troops from Afghanistan looming after the US signed a withdrawal deal with the Taliban, several of the mos…
Read MoreLashkar Gah still under control of government forces but local activist says city is under siegeAs Boris Johnson announced the end of Britain’s military mission in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters pressed in on the capital of Helmand province, once the ce…
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