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Afghan students run underground book club to keep dreams alive

A group of students runs the club in Kabul to learn, read and write their own stories amid expanding Taliban curbs.

Al Jazeera

‘The Taliban know they need us’: the Afghan hospitals run by women

Female medics continue to save lives, but rely on the Red Cross to get by because the Taliban cannot pay their salaries

The Guardian - UK

Afghan women deplore Taliban’s new order to cover faces in public

In their latest decree, the Taliban say it is ‘required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab’.

Al Jazeera

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Afghanistan face veil decree: ‘I’ve lost the right to choose my clothes’

Women say they fear going out in public despite Taliban vow to respect hard-won rights after 2021 takeover

The Guardian - UK

Taliban Announce Women Must Cover Faces in Public, Say Burqa Is Best

The Taliban on Saturday ruled Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group's supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women in public that is drawing a backlash from the international community and many Afghans. A spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Prosecutor who put Taliban behind bars fears for his life as UK ‘turns its back’ on Afghans

Former director of prosecution ‘terrified’ in immigration limbo in Pakistan

The Independent UK

Afghans who want teen girls back in school have new allies: Taliban-affiliated clerics

For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.

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AOC-sponsored Afghan families still waiting for humanitarian visas from Australian government

After fleeing Afghanistan, the five families — which have been sponsored by the Australian Olympic Committee — are desperately waiting for the Australian government to issue the visas.

ABC News

'Symbolic' Afghanistan national women’s soccer team gives a voice for the voiceless on and off the pitch in Melbourne

More than 11,000 kilometres from Kabul, the Afghanistan National Women's team returns to the pitch.

ABC News

Brit in Afghanistan thanked Taliban for 'amazing' meal before getting food poisoning

The 22-year-old boasted to his Twitter followers about all the "amazing" food he bagged for just £20 before falling ill a few hours later

Daily Mirror

ISIS Claims Bus Bombing in Afghan Capital

The ISIS extremist group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a passenger bus that killed one woman in Afghanistan's capital. Dozens of people have been killed and scores wounded in deadly attacks that have punctuated the last two weeks of the fasting month of Ramadan, which ends…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Second bombing in two days in Kabul on eve of Eid al-Fitr holiday

A bomb blast in a passenger van in Kabul on Saturday killed at least one person, officials said, in the second explosion in the Afghan capital in two days, as security concerns rise on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

Reuters

Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque, its leader says

A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Reuters

Powerful explosion at Kabul mosque kills at least 10 people

A Taliban spokesman says a powerful explosion at a Sunni mosque in Kabul has killed at least 10 worshippers and wounded 20

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Evening Standard

50 killed in explosion at Kabul mosque during Friday prayers

Emergency Hospital in downtown Kabul said it was treating 21 patients wounded in the blast

France 24

Powerful blast at Kabul mosque kills at least 10 people

A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 20, a Taliban spokesman said.

France 24

Video: Afghan businesses struggle to survive since Taliban takeover

Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, nearly 2,000 factories across Afghanistan have shut down as factory owners struggle under the combined pressure of a collapsed banking system, decrease in purchasing power, and a drop in international investments. The dire economic situation is hitting business owners and their employees hard.

The Independent UK

In Afghanistan, boys are becoming the breadwinners

In Kabul, war and poverty have long created a permanent underclass of child beggars, scavengers and shoeshine boys, but their numbers have soared in recent months, reports Pamela Constable

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Reuters

Afghan defence minister says will not tolerate 'invasions'

Afghanistan's acting defence minister said on Sunday that the Taliban administration would not tolerate "invasions" from its neighours after protesting against airstrikes it says were conducted by neighbouring Pakistan.

The Independent UK

Blasts across Afghanistan kill at least 10, injure dozens

Explosions across Afghanistan have killed at least 10 people and wounded scores more

The Independent UK

Blasts near Kabul schools kill at least 6 civilians, hurt 17

An Afghan police spokesman says explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six civilians and injured 17 others

Evening Standard

Blasts near Kabul schools kill at least six people and wound 11

Explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six people, including pupils, and injured 11.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Blasts Near Kabul Schools Kill at Least 6 Civilians, Hurt 11

Explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, including students, and injured 11 Tuesday in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan's capital city, police said. The blasts, which occurred in rapid succession, were being investigated and more casualties were feared, according to Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran and the…

Dynamite News

Afghanistan: Six killed and several injured in three Kabul blast

At least six people were killed and several got injured in three explosion on the territory of school in Kabul. Full report on Dynamite News:

Reuters

Blasts hit Kabul high school, causing casualties

Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials.

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