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The Taliban-led government has shut down a women-run radio station in Afghanistan for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, Al-Jazeera reported.   The radio station called Sadai Banowan or “women’s voice” in the Dari language, is the country’s only radio station run mainly by women. It has eight staff …

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run education ministry has suspended university education for female students until further notice.   A letter published Tuesday, Dec. 20, by the higher education ministry instructed Afghan public and private universities to suspend access to female students immediately, in accordance with a Cabinet decision.   This comes after girls …

U.S. Marines and German service member watch an entry gate during an evacuation Sun, 29 Aug 2021Source: reuters.com U.S. forces are in the final phase of leaving Kabul, ending two decades of involvement in Afghanistan, and just over 1,000 civilians at the airport remain to be flown out before troops withdraw, …

The Taliban say they have taken control of the city of Sheberghan in the northern Afghan province of Jawzjan. An Afghan defence ministry spokesman told the BBC government forces were still in the city and would clear out the Taliban “soon”. This is the second regional capital to fall to …

Driving to Taliban-controlled territory doesn’t take long. Around 30 minutes from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, passing large craters left by roadside bombs, we meet our host: Haji Hekmat, the Taliban’s shadow mayor in Balkh district. Perfumed and in a black turban, he’s a veteran member of the group, having …

A US lawsuit that alleges that MTN paid protection money to al-Qaeda and the Taliban has been expanded to include new claims. The suit was filed by the families of US soldiers who were killed or wounded in in Iran and Afghanistan between 2009 and 2017. The case, heard by …