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The Taliban on Saturday ruled Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group's supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women in public that is drawing a backlash from the international community and many Afghans. A spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of…

Afghanistan's Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.

Heavy rain and flooding has killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops in Afghanistan, which is already facing a humanitarian crisis, a disaster management official said on Thursday.

Heavy rain and flooding has killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops in Afghanistan, which is already facing a humanitarian crisis, a disaster management official said on Thursday.

A former SAS patrol commander denies colluding with Ben Roberts-Smith after the pair exchanged emails before they were due to submit outlines of their evidence for the war veteran's defamation trial.

After fleeing Afghanistan, the five families — which have been sponsored by the Australian Olympic Committee — are desperately waiting for the Australian government to issue the visas.

‘The faces familiar to me, of my family and my friends, are left behind in the country that you took from us.’

The 21st century was to be driven by the win-win use of soft power — but in the last few years global leaders have rejected it in favour of a ‘might is right’ attitude