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Ireland vs Afghanistan LIVE: Cricket score and updates from Afghanistan in Ireland 2022

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The Independent UK

Afghan activist who fled country says ‘from anywhere we can support women’

‘I really hope the situation gets better and women can have their basic rights in Afghanistan,’ she said.

The Independent UK

The Taliban shifts tactics in its determination to control and oppress women

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan a year ago, it has barred girls from school, required women to wear burqas in public and banned women from travelling without a male chaperone.

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Gran, 82, refused visa for UK wedding as Home Office thinks she won't 'go back home'

Civil engineer Khadim Hayat, 28, from London, has not seen his 82-year-old grandma since 2019 after the Taliban takeover made it too difficult for him to visit Afghanistan

Daily Mirror

Afghanistan: A day in the life, one year later — in photos

A glimpse into how life has changed for the millions of Afghans at home and abroad.

Axios

Taliban failures in governance speed up Afghan brain drain (Part II)

The mass exodus sparked by the Taliban takeover compelled Afghanistan’s new rulers to issue a call for Afghans to stay and help rebuild the country. But after a year of Taliban rule, the economy is in tatters, confidence has been shattered, and Afghanistan’s best and brightest are not returning –…

France 24

Taliban failures speed up Afghan brain drain, battering an already crippled economy (Part I)

The mass exodus sparked by the August 2021 Taliban takeover compelled Afghanistan’s new rulers to issue a call for Afghans to stay and help rebuild the country. But after a year of Taliban rule, the economy is in tatters, confidence has been shattered, and Afghanistan’s best and brightest are not…

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Q&A: Anas Haqqani on one year of Taliban rule

Taliban leader Anas Haqqani says his government would not allow armed groups to operate from its soil.

Al Jazeera

These photos show who is (and isn't) included in the Taliban's Afghanistan

One year ago, the Taliban raised their white flag over Afghanistan's capital for the second time. NPR toured the country and spoke to the Taliban and residents about what has happened since.

WEKU

Afghan medical student starts over in France

The 15th of August marks the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. FRANCE 24 has been talking to refugees who have fled the country. In episode four of our series of special reports, we meet Fatemeh Abdali, whose medical studies were interrupted when the Taliban took over Kabul.…

France 24

‘I’ll be sacrificed’: The lost and sold daughters of Afghanistan

Child marriage, lack of education, financial desperation; a year since the Taliban takeover, girls’ futures are at risk.

Al Jazeera

Hypocrisy or a reason for hope? The Taliban who send their girls to school

The Afghan rulers’ ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from within

The Guardian - UK

One year after the US withdrew from Afghanistan, refugees find support from all corners of Chicago

CHICAGO — A year ago, former Afghan soldiers Rahimullah Zaland and Khan Madin Ashana fled their home country as the United States withdrew the last of its troops in dramatic airlifts in the final weeks of August. They spent months traveling separately through different countries, looking for a safe haven…

Chicago Tribune

‘I was a policewoman. Now I beg in the street’: life for Afghan women one year after the Taliban took power

Students, mothers, widows, workers and artists explain how their world has altered under ‘gender apartheid’

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Muslims relieved and bewildered after Albuquerque murders case arrest

Community members who kept to their own homes out of fear of a serial killer face possibility that killings may have been committed by one of their own

ABC News

Family who fled Afghanistan reunited in Adelaide after a decade apart, after successful court case against Australian government

A family who fled Afghanistan after their daughter was killed in a missile attack has been reunited in Adelaide a decade later, after a successful court case against the Australian government over a four-year delay in processing their visa applications.

ABC News

Australian academic Timothy Weeks, once held captive by the Taliban, praises regime on return to Afghanistan

Australian academic Timothy Weeks — who was previously held hostage by the Taliban — returns to Afghanistan to "celebrate" the regime's one year in power.

The Independent UK

Patel expresses ‘tremendous pride’ in Afghanistan evacuation effort

The Home Secretary said the evacuation operation following the fall of of Kabul was ‘seismic’ despite scathing criticism from MPs.

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Daily Mirror

Afghanistan horror one year on as children sold into marriage while families starve

One year after the disastrous withdrawal which saw desperate people clinging to the outside of planes to escape, Afghanistan is facing a food crisis with girls getting less food than boys

The Hindu

Taliban offer security to Indian mission

Taliban dispensation hopes to get ‘unfinished projects‘ completed

ABC News

One year of Taliban rule has devastated Afghanistan, but there are glimmers of hope within 'secret schools'

In Afghanistan, a whisper network of teachers, parents and community leaders is funnelling girls to secret schools, defying the rule of the Taliban.

France 24

Afghan artist exiled in France fights for women's rights

The 15th of August will mark the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. FRANCE 24 has been talking to refugees who have fled the country. In episode three of our series of special reports, we meet Kubra Khademi, an Afghan artist exiled in France.

Axios

Taliban beat women protesting in Afghanistan as anniversary nears

The marchers chanted: “Justice! Justice! We’re fed up with ignorance."

Daily Mirror

Taliban shown smiling with guns on pedalos as they celebrate Afghan takeover anniversary

A year on from the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan some fighters were seen with their families riding around a lake on pedalos, while Kabul was hit by protests about women's rights

The Independent UK

Afghan rights leader heartbroken after year of Taliban rule

A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country

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