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Girls gather at a gender-segregated school in Kabul on Sept. 15. When older secondary students returned to classes, female students were told to wait.

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Aid Official Warns Of A Bleak Situation In Afghanistan As Winter Approaches

10:18am September 24, 2021

The head of Save the Children in Afghanistan says it has been difficult to operate under the Taliban and their restrictions on women. Without humanitarian aid, he predicts serious casualties ahead.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes a speech during the 76th session of United Nations General Assembly, in New York, United States on Tuesday.

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The Taliban Want A Chance To Address The U.N. That's Unlikely To Happen Soon

10:33am September 22, 2021

by Scott Neuman

Afghanistan's new rulers have asked for United Nations recognition so they can address the current General Assembly session. But the U.N. credentials committee is unlikely to move that quickly.

Sayyid Ali Hussaini (center), his wife Mahbube and daughter Elisa sit together in the Turkish city of Trabzon. Originally from the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the family fled Taliban advances over the summer and arrived in Turkey last month.

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His Family Fled Afghanistan. In Turkey, Other Afghans Help Them Build A New Life

6:13pm September 20, 2021

by Durrie Bouscaren

The Taliban beat him for being Hazara. He spent his life savings to smuggle his family to Turkey — climbing over its border wall — to find a community of Afghans that helps each other get settled.

Women march to demand their rights under the Taliban rule during a demonstration near the former Women's Affairs Ministry building in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. The interim mayor of Afghanistan's capital said that many female city employees have been

Female Government Workers In Kabul Told To Stay Home In Latest Taliban Rule

3:19pm September 19, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

Kabul's interim mayor did not give an exact number on just how many female employees would be forced to stay home because of the new rule. Previously about a third of city employees were women.

In this Sept. 9, 2021, photo, a Qatar Airways aircraft takes off with foreigners from the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Another Flight Has Left Kabul's Airport, This Time With 28 U.S. Citizens On Board

7:00pm September 18, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

The Qatar Airways charter flight, which was the latest departure from the country now under Taliban control, also included seven U.S. permanent residents.

A newly-opened COVID-19 hospital in Kabul. Dr. Wahid Majrooh, the acting minister of public health in Afghanistan, must address the pandemic's toll at a time when the Taliban takeover has triggered a freeze in hundreds of millions of dollars in health-car

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Afghan Health Minister: Health Care Is 'On The Verge Of Collapse' But 'I'm Optimistic'

6:48am September 18, 2021

by Kamala Thiagarajan

Dr. Wahid Majrooh tells NPR that "If I am hesitant and doubtful now it won't help anyone, and people in need of care will be the first to be affected."

Afghan girls play cricket on school grounds in Kabul in 2010. At the time, Afghanistan was set to select its first national women's cricket team. But a Taliban official now reportedly says women won't be allowed to play it and other sports.

Afghan Women Will Be Banned From Playing Sports, A Taliban Official Says

6:41pm September 08, 2021

by Bill Chappell

"Islam and the Islamic Emirate do not allow women to play cricket or play the kind of sports where they get exposed," a senior Taliban official reportedly said.

The main entrance to the campus of the Darul Uloom seminary in Deoband, India, where the Deobandi strain of Islam was founded in the 19th century. Among its more recent adherents are the Taliban.

The Taliban's Ideology Has Surprising Roots In British-Ruled India

9:07am September 08, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

The Taliban's ideology has distant links to India. Scholars say Afghanistan's new leaders might listen to clerics in the birthplace of Deobandi Islam, though the clerics deny ties with the Taliban.

An Afghan anti-Taliban fighter is seen on a hilltop in Anaba district in Afghanistan's Panjshir province on Wednesday.

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The Afghan Resistance Says Reports Of Its Defeat In Panjshir Are Taliban Propaganda

7:52pm September 03, 2021

by Scott Neuman

Ali Nazary, the National Resistance Front's head of foreign relations, denies that the last holdout against the Taliban has fallen, calling such reports part of the "Taliban propaganda machine."

The U.K.-educated Ahmad Massoud (shown here in 2019) is the son of legendary commander Ahmad Shah Massoud and, like his father, is amassing resistance forces in Panjshir province.

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He Is All That Stands In The Way Of The Taliban Taking Total Control Of Afghanistan

10:26am September 02, 2021

by Scott Neuman

As when the Taliban last took power, the Panjshir Valley is the hub of resistance — and is led by a man named Massoud. This Massoud has no combat experience but is amassing allies and vows to fight.