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Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan a year ago, it has barred girls from school, required women to wear burqas in public and banned women from travelling without a male chaperone.

Civil engineer Khadim Hayat, 28, from London, has not seen his 82-year-old grandma since 2019 after the Taliban takeover made it too difficult for him to visit Afghanistan

One year ago, the Taliban raised their white flag over Afghanistan's capital for the second time. NPR toured the country and spoke to the Taliban and residents about what has happened since.

The 15th of August marks the one-year anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. FRANCE 24 has been talking to refugees who have fled the country. In episode four of our series of special reports, we meet Fatemeh Abdali, whose medical studies were interrupted when the Taliban took over Kabul.…

Child marriage, lack of education, financial desperation; a year since the Taliban takeover, girls’ futures are at risk.

The Afghan rulers’ ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from within

CHICAGO — A year ago, former Afghan soldiers Rahimullah Zaland and Khan Madin Ashana fled their home country as the United States withdrew the last of its troops in dramatic airlifts in the final weeks of August. They spent months traveling separately through different countries, looking for a safe haven…

Students, mothers, widows, workers and artists explain how their world has altered under ‘gender apartheid’

Community members who kept to their own homes out of fear of a serial killer face possibility that killings may have been committed by one of their own