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Hundreds of Afghan women have been leading protests in several cities across the country demanding the protection of rights for women and denouncing what they say is Pakistan's support for the Taliban takeover. At a Kabul protest on September 7, Taliban gunmen fired in the air.
A female Afghan police officer, Zala Zazai, says she was forced to flee Afghanistan due to serious threats as the Taliban was taking over the country.
The Taliban on September 7 named reclusive leader Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada as "supreme leader" and a founding leader, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, to lead a new Afghan regime as the radical fundamentalist group seeks to establish its rule after the UN-backed government collapsed in August.
Taliban militants have violently dispersed a crowd of women who had taken to the streets of the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif to call for their rights be preserved and their participation in the new government, according to a protest organizer.
Taliban militants have fired shots into the air to disperse a rally in Kabul after the militant group swept to power last month.
The Taliban has announced a new dress code for women who attend universities in Afghanistan that forces them to completely cover their bodies in black. The militant group also said classes will be segregated by gender and that female teachers can only teach women.
Aryana Sayeed is one of Afghanistan's most famous pop stars, but now she's an exile. Speaking to RFE/RL's Radio Azadi from her home in Istanbul, Turkey, she says her career will continue -- but that she is hugely concerned for the many artists stuck in Afghanistan.
The leader of the resistance movement in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley is calling for a "national uprising" against the Taliban, who claimed to have taken complete control of the province where opposition forces had been holding out.
The leader of Afghanistan’s resistance front against the Taliban said on September 5 that he welcomed proposals by religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end the fighting in the Panjshir Valley, the last holdout against Taliban control in Afghanistan.
The Taliban's takeover has thrown Afghanistan's economy into chaos. Since the militant group's capture of Kabul on August 15, many Afghans are grappling with soaring food prices and cash shortages.
Former Afghan legislator Shukria Barakzai describes the harrowing experience of how she escaped from Kabul after the capital fell to the Taliban.
About three dozen women in the western Afghan city of Herat have protested to demand the new Taliban leadership preserves the rights and advances women have made in the country since the militants were ousted two decades ago.
A women’s rights activist expects the Taliban to unleash a “wave of repression” now that the last U.S. troops have left Afghanistan.
The family of influential Afghan cleric Maulvi Mohammad Sardar Zadran says he has been arrested by the Taliban.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for firing six rockets at Kabul's airport on August 30.
The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), which claimed responsibility for the deadly August 26 attacks outside Kabul airport, is far more brutal than the Taliban, according to RFE/RL's Radio Azadi Service Director Qadir Habib.
The Taliban says none of its fighters guarding the perimeter of Kabul’s airport were killed in the explosions on August 26 that claimed more than 100 lives, including 13 U.S. troops, and deflected blame for the attack on the United States.
The U.S. military believes there are still “credible threats” against a major airlift operation at Kabul airport a day after a suicide attack on a crowd trying to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan killed more than 100 people, including 13 U.S. troops.
Russia will use four military transport aircraft to evacuate more than 500 citizens from Afghanistan, Russian news agencies reported on August 25, as the Taliban said an August 31 deadline for all foreign evacuations to be completed will not be extended.
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