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Having paid smugglers to organise a dangerous escape, those fleeing the Taliban face persistent hostility

The rights group says the Taliban has failed to protect Hazaras and other at-risk communities.

Authorities in Afghanistan's eastern province of Paktia said girls' high schools had opened in recent days, though the move had not been officially approved.

Human Rights Watch says Taliban is failing to protect Shia minority from violent attacks on mosques, schools and workplaces

Russia is one of the few countries to have maintained an embassy in Kabul after the Taliban took over more than a year ago.

A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one civilian, a local police official and a Russian state news agency said. It was unclear if the attacker detonated the explosives himself or whether…

The death toll is expected to rise, say officials

Two embassy staff among six dead after suicide bomber detonates explosives near the embassy’s entrance.

At least six people are dead and 11 have been injured in an apparent suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan. The attack took place outside the Russian Embassy where guards shot the attacker before his device detonated

Two Russian embassy staff in Kabul were among six people killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance of the embassy, in a blast that injured at least 10 others, the Russian Foreign Ministry and Afghan officials said on Monday.

Senators have pledged to keep pressure on the Taliban to uphold the rights and freedoms of the Afghan people a year on from the fall of the capital Kabul.