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Afghanistan's Taliban mediate ceasefire between Pakistan, local militants

The Taliban in Afghanistan have mediated a temporary ceasefire between Pakistan and a local Pakistani Taliban militant group following talks between the two sides in Kabul, an official said on Wednesday.

Reuters

US withdrawal prompted collapse of Afghan army: Report

The US oversight authority on Afghanistan says the decision to withdraw from Kabul led to the demise of the Afghan army.

Al Jazeera

‘We are worse off’: Afghanistan further impoverished as women vanish from workforce

From civil servants, teachers and doctors to journalists and business owners, loss of female workers under the Taliban has already cost the economy $1bn

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Daughter begs Government to save mum from Afghanistan and blasts Tory 'double standards'

Shabnam Nishat's mum has been in hiding in Afghanistan since thousands of troops were dispatched to Kabul to rescue UK nationals and Afghan allies from the Taliban advance

Daily Mirror

Many Afghan women pushing back against Taliban orders to cover up

Many women in the Afghan capital are delaying a return to fully covering their faces in public in defiance of orders from Islamist Taliban rulers, others are staying at home and some have been wearing COVID-19 face masks anyway.

Reuters

LA Times foreign correspondent and photojournalist Marcus Yam wins Pulitzer Prize for work in Afghanistan

LOS ANGELES — Marcus Yam, a Los Angeles Times journalist with a warrior’s courage and a poet’s heart, won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography Monday for his poignant and searing pictures of last summer’s fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to Taliban fighters.

Los Angeles Times

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

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‘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

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.

WEKU

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.

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'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.

Daily Mirror

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

Asharq Al-Awsat

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…

Reuters

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.

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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.

The Independent UK

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

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

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.

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