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Sikhs in Kabul say more than a dozen armed men attacked and briefly occupied a Sikh temple in the Kart-e Parwan district of the Afghan capital on October 5, tying up the guards and destroying security cameras.
Hundreds of people have gathered outside the passport office in Kabul to apply for travel documents after the service opened for the first time since the Taliban seized power in mid-August.
Afghan men are transitioning to a new era of Taliban rule in which facial hair is back in fashion -- or else. After the Taliban issued an order barring the shaving of beards, barbers are facing financial ruin and young men who get their hair cut risk beatings and detentions.
The Taliban says it has arrested four members of the rival Islamic State (IS) extremist group north of the Afghan capital, while at least two Taliban fighters were killed in an attack in the country's east.
Khan Agha and his family fled their homes in Afghanistan's central Maidan Wardak Province four years ago amid the Taliban insurgency. With the Taliban now in power, the 70-year-old felt it was safe to return, but the house and orchards he left behind were destroyed by conflict.
Afghanistan's interim Taliban government has held its first cabinet meeting since taking power in August, the group's chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on October 4 in a press release, which also announced that the government would resume issuing passports and ID cards to Afghan citizens.
Radio call-in programs focusing on women's rights, produced by RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, are continuing to reach listeners in Afghanistan, despite the Taliban takeover of the country.
The Taliban claims it has destroyed a cell operated by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in a raid conducted just hours after a deadly bombing outside a Kabul mosque.
A Taliban official says that Afghan civilians have been killed by an explosion outside a Kabul mosque where a prayer ceremony for his own mother was to be held.
Negar, an Afghan policewoman, was killed after the Taliban came to power. She is survived by her husband and 10 children, including a 9-month-old baby. Her death came amid reports of extrajudicial killings of people who worked for the security forces under the ousted Afghan government.
In Nimroz Province in southern Afghanistan, archaeologists are working to preserve a number of ancient buildings that are at risk of total collapse. They appear to have the support of local Taliban officials, but there are concerns that the regime might change its policy.
The Afghan national women's handball team was ready to play in international championships this month, but they were blocked from traveling and competing by the Taliban's de facto ban on women's sports. The team's captain, Homaira Barakzai, says she has been housebound in Kabul for the past month.
Taliban authorities have hung four bodies of alleged kidnappers in a public square in the western Afghan city of Herat.
Many women's shelters in Afghanistan have shut down since the Taliban seized power in August. Activists say the closure of the shelters cuts off the only protection for victims of domestic abuse in the deeply conservative and patriarchal country.
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.
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