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Until the collapse of Afghanistan’s US-backed government in August 2021, few knew clearly what the Taliban wanted once they had returned to power. Some western officials and observers hoped for a big change from the regime, which had governed the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate in the 1990s.

The Taliban defends controversial vice and virtue laws in Afghanistan despite international criticism, sparking concerns over women's rights and personal f...

The Taliban has rejected concerns and criticism from the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws which include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public

New vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UN

Taliban's new vice and virtue laws in Afghanistan raise international alarm over women's rights and freedoms.

Thousands of people who helped the U.S. in Afghanistan are still looking for an escape.

A top UN official is warning that the Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws provide a distressing vision for Afghanistan’s future

An Afghan pilot who The Independent fought to be allowed to build a life in Britain, has finally been reunited with his wife and daughter. Holly Bancroft met the young family as they begin to attempt to rebuild their lives after fleeing the Taliban and years of separation

The laws are some of the strictest brought in since the Taliban came to power