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The number of malnourished children in Afghanistan is rapidly rising, as witnessed by increased hospital admissions of starving children. Aid agencies warn that more than 1 million children could die of starvation this winter amid a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.
The Taliban recently released water from a dam in southwestern Afghanistan into Iran, which is suffering from a severe drought. Many observers have seen the move as a sign of deepening cooperation between the Sunni militant group and Iran's Shi'ite clerical regime.
The Taliban is forcing Afghans to do manual labor in exchange for food aid donated by other countries. Now the regime is expanding its "work-for-food" program by using international humanitarian aid to pay public sector workers.
Seven Afghan civilians have been killed and nine injured in Herat city after a bomb attached to a packed minivan exploded.
The Taliban has intensified efforts to suppress peaceful protests and free speech in Afghanistan. Last week, a journalist was brutally assaulted at his home in Kabul, an attack blamed on the militants. This week, two female protesters were reportedly arrested by the Taliban.
A Taliban delegation is expected to travel to Norway for three days of talks on ways to alleviate a “full-blown humanitarian disaster” that millions of Afghan are facing, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said on January 21.
Afghanistan's acting prime minister is calling on governments to officially recognize the Taliban-led administration that took over the war-torn country in August, arguing at a press conference in Kabul that all conditions had been met.
Taliban officials in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan Province have ordered male employees to stop trimming their beards and wear a turban at work.
A Kabul street-food vendor tells RFE/RL's Radio Azadi that he is struggling to feed his large family after the income he used to earn selling chickpea snacks sharply declined during the past two months. "People say Afghans are getting aid, but where is the aid?" asked the man.
With no say in their fate, no government to represent them, and in the wrong place to exercise their international rights as refugees, thousands of Afghans stranded in Indonesia for up to a decade are making a last-ditch plea on social media to change their situation.
A female Afghan prosecutor overcame a crippling disease and discrimination to pursue an education and get her dream job. But since the Taliban takeover, she has been unemployed as the militants have barred many women from returning to work.
The Taliban's religious police have erected banners in Kabul that order women to wear the Islamic hijab.
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan says a delegation led by acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has met with resistance leaders Ahmad Massud and Ismail Khan in Iran.
At least seven people, including six children, have been killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, local officials said.
The Taliban have detained a prominent university professor after he publicly criticized the Taliban-led government in a live television debate, prompting a torrent of domestic and international criticism and worries about his safety.
The Taliban's feared Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has issued a spate of draconian decrees in recent weeks. Afghans say the directives, including ordering men to grow beards and women to travel with a male chaperone, infringe on basic human rights and freedoms.
Dozens of people said to abuse drugs are being held at one of Afghanistan's biggest prisons together with convicted criminals. Taliban officials claim Kandahar Central Prison serves as an educational and rehab center for those with drug addictions.
Turkmen border guards have skirmished with Taliban fighters along the Afghan border, according to local media reports.
Footage taken by protesters on December 28 in Kabul and shared with RFE/RL showed the women chanting slogans and their march being stopped by the Taliban. Several protesters sustained injuries in a stampede after Taliban militants shot in the air to disperse the rally.
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