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UNSC asks Taliban to allow Afghan girls to attend school

28 Mar 2022

The United Nations Security Council has expressed deep concern over a decision by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to deny girls access to high school education and called on the group...

Now Taliban preserve buddhas, with eye to China investment

27 Mar 2022

The ancient buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be...

The Taliban stance on girls’ education

27 Mar 2022

The decision of the Taliban government in Afghanistan closing the middle schools for girls in a sudden turnaround after opening them on Wednesday has sent a confusing signal in...

Afghan girls’ education ban won’t last, Malala tells Taliban

26 Mar 2022

The Taliban's ban on girls' education won't last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be "empowered." The...

Female foreign ministers press Taliban on girls’ education

26 Mar 2022

Female foreign ministers from 16 countries around the world said on Friday they are "deeply disappointed” that Afghan girls are being denied access to secondary schools and called on...

Taliban break promise on higher education for Afghan girls

24 Mar 2022

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers unexpectedly decided against reopening schools Wednesday to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to appease their hard-line base at the expense...

Heartbreak as Afghan girls ordered home just hours after schools reopen

23 Mar 2022

The Taliban ordered girls' secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut Wednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion and heartbreak over the policy reversal by the...

Afghanistan world's unhappiest country, even before Taliban

19 Mar 2022

Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world — even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That's according to a so-called World Happiness report released ahead of...

Taliban staging massive house-to-house sweep in Afghanistan

28 Feb 2022

Gulf Today Report The Taliban are conducting a massive security sweep of Kabul and other Afghan cities, their spokesman said on Sunday, going house-to-house in search of weapons and...

The human cost of US freezing Afghan funds

20 Feb 2022

Last week International Rescue Committee chief David Miliband told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that the US and its European allies have adopted a “catastrophe of choice” policy for Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The...

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