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Hundreds of people have protested in Kabul and other Afghan provinces demanding the release of billions of dollars in foreign reserves blocked abroad as the Taliban's newly installed regime struggles to contain a deepening economic crisis.
The Taliban's acting defense minister, Mullah Mohammad Yaqub, has apparently admitted in an audio statement that militants have committed revenge killings despite the group having declared an amnesty for its adversaries after it returned to power in Afghanistan last month in a blitz offensive.
Reports from eastern Afghanistan say attackers struck Taliban vehicles in eastern Afghanistan, killing several fighters and civilians, in the latest violence since the group's takeover of the country last month.
Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, the militants have made vague statements about allowing girls to get an education, but so far, that female secondary-school students have stayed home. Students told Radio Azadi about their fear that their educations have been cut short.
Prosecutors who worked for Afghanistan's ousted central government say they are now being threatened by the criminals they helped convict. The threats come after the Taliban emptied the country's jails during their takeover of the country in August.
The Taliban-led government has expanded its interim cabinet, releasing a list of deputy ministers solely comprising men despite increasing international criticism that the hard-line Islamist group's actions were failing to live up to its early pledges of inclusion for women.
Reports from Afghanistan say three explosions have killed at least three people and wounded 19 others in the capital of the eastern province of Nangarhar.
In central Afghanistan's Ghor Province, drought has blighted Murtaza Farzan’s potato crop and left him hoping for international aid, which has also dried up since the Taliban takeover in August. Many people have fled the land for the regional capital, Firozkoh.
Taliban co-founder and acting Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar appeared in a video to deny speculation he was hurt or killed in a clash with a rival faction of the fundamentalist group.
Millions are out of work, the country's foreign reserves are frozen, cash has mostly dried up, and markets are running low on imported goods. Afghanistan's collapsing economy has had devastating personal impacts, with some unemployed Afghans selling off their household items to buy food.
A group of top Afghan girls soccer players, their coaches, and family members have fled across the border into neighboring Pakistan as questions linger over the status of female athletes under the newly installed Taliban-led government.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he's hopeful the Taliban-led government will eventually become inclusive and draw its strength from domestic legitimacy, which he says is the key to earning international recognition.
Desperate Afghans fled the violence during the Taliban's months-long offensive that led to it capturing Kabul, adding to a displaced population that already numbered in the millions. At the same time, foreign organizations that once provided food and medical aid were forced to leave the country.
Afghan women are using a social media campaign to fight back against the Taliban-led government's strict new dress code for female students.
The head of the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has told an Australian broadcaster that the Afghan national women's team could still be allowed to play cricket.
Women have been the driving force behind street protests in Kabul and other major cities since the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan. The women are demanding equal rights even as they face threats and violence at the hands of armed Taliban fighters.
Habibullah Shabab found his calling as a singer -- but since the Taliban's return to power, he's given up performing and instead makes a living as a shopkeeper. The Taliban has not yet imposed a ban on music as it did in the 1990s, but Shabab and others fear such a policy is imminent.
Afghanistan’s once-thriving Jewish community no longer exists now that its last member has departed following the Taliban takeover. Zablon Simintov was evacuated from Kabul earlier this month.
Two journalists for Kabul-based newspaper Etilaat-e Roz were detained by Taliban militants while covering a protest for women's rights on September 7. They were released hours later covered in bruises and barely able to walk. RFE/RL's Radio Azadi spoke to the newspaper's founder about the beatings a
Providing food and other aid for more than 3.5 million internally displaced Afghans is one of the major issues the Taliban government faces after taking control of the country.
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