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A composite photo shows TV anchors Hamed Bahram (left) and Nesar Nabil wearing face masks while reading the news on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday.

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Male Afghan TV anchors cover faces in solidarity with women after a Taliban order

2:15pm May 24, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Male anchors in Afghanistan are wearing masks on air in solidarity with their female colleagues. This is the latest Taliban order to threaten the freedoms and careers of Afghan women.

Basira Joya, 20, a news presenter, sits during recording at the Zan TV station (women's TV) in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 30, 2017. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air, the country's biggest media outl

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The Taliban say Afghan female TV anchors must cover their faces on air

12:55pm May 20, 2022

by The Associated Press

The order came from the Taliban's Virtue and Vice Ministry as well as from the Information and Culture Ministry. Earlier this month, the Taliban ordered women in public to wear head-to-toe clothing.

Women wearing a burqa (left) and a niqab (right) walk along a street in Kabul on May 7.

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Opinion: The return of the burqa in Afghanistan

11:04am May 14, 2022

by Scott Simon

Women in Afghanistan continue to experience more restrictions under the Taliban, including the return of the burqa. NPR's Scott Simon notes how the world seems to be distracted from their plight.

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Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul on April 25. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public.

The Taliban orders women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public

3:43pm May 07, 2022

by Diaa Hadid

The decree, which calls for women in Afghanistan to show only their eyes and recommends they wear the burqa, evoked similar restrictions during the Taliban's previous rule.

Afghan girls and women and girls protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls.

Afghans who want teen girls back in school have new allies: Taliban-affiliated clerics

2:44pm May 05, 2022

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.

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A family enters a U.S. Air Force plane in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 24, 2021. The evacuation was part of a U.S. effort to relocate Afghans to safety in the wake of the Taliban siege. But many families were separated in the process — and reuniting them

Families were split up during Afghanistan evacuations — and are still not reunited

1:53pm April 05, 2022

by Ruchi Kumar

After the Taliban takeover, family members — even spouses — were sometimes separated during U.S. evacuation efforts. Now a global network of volunteers are trying to bring out those left behind.

In this July 17, 2021, file photo, candles lit by journalists in New Delhi pay tribute to photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in Afghanistan covering clashes between the Taliban and Afghan security forces.

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Family of killed photojournalist Danish Siddiqui take Taliban leaders to ICC

7:14am March 23, 2022

by Robert Griffiths

The family of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, killed during a Taliban attack in Afghanistan last year, are seeking legal action at the International Criminal Court

Afghan girls participate in a lesson at a high School, in Herat, on Nov. 25, 2021.

As school resumes in Afghanistan, will all girls be allowed to go?

5:00am March 20, 2022

by Fatma Tanis

Schools in Afghanistan are expected to open for the new semester Wednesday. But despite Taliban assurances that girls will be allowed back, students and teachers are unclear about what will happen.

Afghan wait to enter a bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022.

Afghans say they feel safer but less hopeful under Taliban rule

4:39am February 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

After six months of Taliban rule, many Afghans say they fear for their economic future of lack of personal freedoms.

People waiting outside of a gate at the Kabul airport.

From Kabul to Virginia: An Afghan family is starting over in America

1:08pm January 25, 2022

by H.J. Mai

In only a matter of days, the lives of an Afghan family changed forever. After the Taliban took control of Kabul, they were forced to start over in a foreign country.

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