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The decree, which calls for women to only show their eyes and recommends they wear the head-to-toe burqa, evoked similar restrictions during the Taliban's previous rule between 1996 and 2001.

The decree, which calls for women in Afghanistan to show only their eyes and recommends they wear the burqa, evoked similar restrictions during the Taliban's previous rule.

The move is one of the harshest restrictions imposed on Afghanistan’s women since the Taliban seized power last year.

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…

Afghanistan's Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

The Taliban on Saturday ruled that Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group’s supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women that is drawing backlash from the international community and many Afghans.

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