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A new U.N. report says more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago

The Taliban has announced that all beauty salons in Afghanistan must now close as a one-month deadline ended, despite rare public opposition to the edict

UNAMA says there have been 3,774 civilian casualties, including 1,095 civilian deaths, in violence since August 2021.

KABUL: Afghan women employed by a leading international NGO have resumed their work in some provinces, months after the Taliban government banned them from working.

Some Afghan women employed by the United Nations have been detained, harassed and had restrictions placed on their movements.

‘Discriminatory and unlawful measures’ restrict Afghan women’s and girls’ participation in public life, report says.

The U.N. says some Afghan women employed by the United Nations have been detained, harassed and had restrictions placed on their movements since being banned by the Taliban from working for the world body

A U.N. report has strongly criticized Afghanistan's Taliban rulers for carrying out public executions, lashings, stonings and other types of punishments since taking power almost two years ago

In a major setback to the relief efforts in Afghanistan, the UN limits its operations in the war-ravaged country facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the wake of the Taliban's ban on its female staff.

The United Nations told some 3,300 Afghan staff not to come to work in Afghanistan for the next two days after the Taliban authorities signaled on Tuesday that they would enforce a ban on Afghan women working for the world body.

A prominent activist who campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been arrested by Taliban authorities in Kabul.