Afghan women have been banned from working by the Taliban, leaving thousands in poverty.
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Widows and single women are losing their homes, after being told they can no longer work by the Taliban, and are living on the poverty line.
Same old Taliban: Afghan women in Texas protest the treatment of women under the current Islamic regime.
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Afghanistan’s new rulers have broken their pledge to uphold women’s rights.
Resistance leader: the NRF’s Ahmad Massoud.
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The National Resistance Front controls large swaths of territory in the north-east of Afghanistan.
Taliban supporters celebrate the one year anniversary of Afghanistan take-over.
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The group was arguably more effective – and less corrupt – at collecting taxes than the former government.
A girl attends school in Afghanistan in 2019, before the closure of secondary schools by the Taliban.
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Education for girls was also limited during the Taliban’s previous period of control in Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001.
Taliban and their supporters gather near the building of the former US embassy as they celebrate the first anniversary of taking over the government in Kabul,
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One year after the Taliban reclaimed power in Afghanistan, life for many Afghan people is mired in poverty and oppression.
The Taliban’s success in taking control in Afghanistan has encouraged other militant groups.
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The Taliban promised not to allow Afghanistan to be used by groups seeking to attack the US, yet terrorist groups have only become more emboldened under its rule.
A Taliban fighter stands guard as a woman enters the government passport office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in April 2022.
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Research into 70 new Taliban policies to control women and girls shows the extremist, misogynistic group might be using different tactics, but it still poses grave dangers to Afghan society.
Afghan women chant during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, in October 2021.
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Afghan women activists, leaders and former politicians who are now in exile are telling of the continued struggle for women’s rights in Afghanistan and women’s diverse strategies of resistance.
Taliban fighters ride through the streets of Kabul on a captured police humvee hours after president Ashraf Ghani fled the Afhgan capital on 15 August 2021.
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A new book by Australian photo-journalist Andrew Quilty records the last chaotic days of the failed American nation-building exercise in Afghanistan.
Tension in Kabul: a Taliban fighter stands guard over the building in which Ayman al-Zawahiri was assassinated.
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The assassination of the leader of al-Qaida in Kabul raises some important questions about divisions among the Taliban leadership.
Who will replace the man who replaced bin Laden?
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The US strike against al-Zawahri leaves the future of al-Qaida at a crossroads as the terrorist movement looks for a new leader.
A woman wearing a burka walks through a bird market as she holds her child in downtown Kabul in May after Taliban rulers ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public.
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In the year since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, human rights abuses are off the charts, particularly towards women and ethnic minorities.
Many young women in Afghanistan find getting an education very difficult.
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Girls’ secondary schools remain closed in Afghanistan, despite international pressure.
Women wearing burqas wait for free bread outside a bakery in Kabul on Jan. 24, 2022.
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The Taliban’s recent abduction of 40 people, and gang rape of eight women, has not captured Western media attention. But activists inside Afghanistan point to worrying levels of violence.
The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in August 2021, without major opposition.
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Four months after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, a clearer picture of their rule is emerging. Despite public assurances, the Taliban continue to violate human rights.
Taliban fighters stand guard over the corpse of a suicide bomber who was shot dead as she attempted to detonate a bomb inside a Kabul passport office in December 2021.
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The Taliban is recruiting a unit of suicide bombers to combat insurgency in Afghanistan.
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Even if the money were released, the likelihood of the corrupt and inept Taliban using it to fix the humanitarian crisis afflicting the country is remote.
Cash crop: poppy cultivation and heroin trafficking vie with people smuggling as some of the most lucrative ways of making money in Afghanistan.
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As the Afghan economy collapses, drugs and people smuggling are booming.
An Afghan girl looks on as she stands near her house on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, in November 2021.
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Even in the absence of a moral motive to alleviate famine, there is a strong rationale for the West to do whatever’s necessary to alleviate hunger in Afghanistan this winter.