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 An Afghan woman walks past a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 6, 2023

UN envoy urges world court to prosecute Afghan gender discrimination

By REUTERS
 A day after U.S. forces completed its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, refugees board a bus taking them to a processing center upon their arrival at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, US, September 1, 2021.

Taliban mark two years since return to power in Afghanistan

By REUTERS
 Protesters take part in a march and rally in support of Afghan women's rights in London, Britain, November 27, 2022.

Afghan women take protests online as Taliban crush dissent

By REUTERS
US Marines load onto a U.S. C-17 Globemaster from McGuire Air Force Base to be transported to Afghanistan from Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait August 18, 2021. Picture taken August 18, 2021

US prosecutors rush to evacuate colleagues from Afghanistan

By Clint Van Winkle/The Media Line
Members of a Taliban delegation leave after peace talks with Afghan senior politicians in Moscow, May 30, 2019

Taliban rejects UN report on human rights breaches in Afghanistan

By ARSHAD MEHMOUD/THE MEDIA LINE
 IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER Ali Khamenei waters a sapling during an Arbor Day ceremony in Tehran, in March.

Iran's cross-border water crisis ignored amid domestic turmoil - opinion

 Taliban soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 6, 2023.

Taliban calls on US to lift economic, travel sanctions in meeting with envoy

By REUTERS
 An Afghan woman and a girl walk in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 9, 2022.

Former Afghan officials appeal to US Congress for support in restoring legitimate gov’t

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
Members of the Taliban in Pakistan

Islamist militants kill Pakistan army officer

By REUTERS
 A woman wearing a niqab enters a beauty salon where the ads of women have been defaced by a shopkeeper in Kabul, Afghanistan October 6, 2021.

Taliban administration orders beauty salons in Afghanistan to close

By REUTERS
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden has been riding a new wave of populism that will become the central theme in the next decade’s election campaigns across the Western world: disparaging big tech corporations.

Taliban says Biden 'acknowledged reality' about Al-Qaeda being gone

Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) held a ceremony in London that honored IsraAID and the British Jewish NGO HIAS+JCORE

Afghan Institute honors IsraAID and Jewish NGOs for aiding refugees

A Taliban fighter stands on guard as displaced Afghan women walk into an UNHCR distribution center to receive aid supply on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, October 28, 2021.

Over 1,000 Afghan civilians killed in blasts, violence since August 2021 - UN

By REUTERS
 An Afghan woman and a girl walk in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 9, 2022.

'Gender Apartheid' is virtue signaling: Expert criticizes UN on Afghan women’s rights

By ARSHAD MEHMOOD/THE MEDIA LINE
A Taliban fighter stands on guard as displaced Afghan women walk into an UNHCR distribution center to receive aid supply on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, October 28, 2021.

Taliban's treatment of women could be 'gender apartheid'

By REUTERS