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Four young girls dressed in matching outfits hold Taliban flags on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the US withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi)
August 15, 2026, 1:40 pm
Taliban marks 5 years back in power as Afghan women remain shut out of public life
Officials tout stability and end to war while women remain barred from universities and girls over 12 are shut out of school; UN warns of deepening rights crisis
By Qahar Afghan and Susan Frazer
A Taliban security personnel stands guard as Afghan Shiite Muslim women march during a religious procession held to mark Ashura, on the tenth day of the Islamic holy month of Muharram, in Kabul on July 6, 2025. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
July 8, 2025, 7:39 pm
ICC seeks to arrest Taliban leaders over persecution of women and girls
Judges say Taliban’s leader, top justice ‘severely deprived’ women and girls of their basic rights since seizing power; warrants make good on chief prosecutor’s January request
By Agencies
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 24, 2025, 3:21 pm
Taliban slams possible ICC arrest warrant, says court should go after Israel and US
Kabul accuses court of trying to ‘impose a particular interpretation of human rights’ after chief prosecutor says Taliban leaders suspected of gender-based crimes against humanity
By AFP
File - Tens of thousands of Muslim worshipers attend the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, April 14, 2023. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
February 2, 2024, 9:32 am
UN experts: Al-Qaeda messaging increasingly focusing on Al-Aqsa in wake of Oct. 7
New report says terror groups can’t launch long-range operations but still ‘harbor global ambitions’; threat high in Africa conflict zones, Afghanistan, rise in Europe
By AP and ToI Staff
Afghan burqa-clad women stand in a queue as they wait to receive food being distributed as an aid by the World Food Programme (WFP) organization at Nawabad Kako Sahib area in Baraki Barak district of Logar Province on January 7, 2024. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP)
January 10, 2024, 11:30 pm
Taliban official says women detained for improper dress amid crackdown in Kabul
Afghan security official claims detainees were only advised ‘to have greater respect and dignity’ and were not ‘disrespected or humiliated’
By AFP
Afghan residents sit at a damaged house after earthquake in Sarbuland village of Zendeh Jan, district of Herat province, on October 7,2023 (Mohsen KARIMI / AFP)
October 8, 2023, 9:57 am
Death toll from western Afghanistan earthquakes rises to over 2,000, Taliban says
Villages destroyed and hundreds of civilians buried under the debris; UN says number of dead expected to rise
By AP
Tourism Minister Haim Katz in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on September 27, 2023, on the first such high-level public mission to the oil-rich kingdom. (Israeli Tourism Ministry via AFP)
September 29, 2023, 6:32 pm
Minister photographed in Saudi Arabia alongside Syrian counterpart, Taliban official
Syria’s Mohammed Martini reportedly takes exception to being pictured next to Haim Katz in group photo at tourism confab, distances himself from the Israeli
By ToI Staff
Prof. Ido Didi Fabian performing surgery on a retinoblastoma patient. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
August 21, 2023, 2:06 am
Via modern medical ‘Silk Road,’ Israeli doctors are saving the lives of Afghan kids
Ocular oncologists from Sheba Medical Center work with colleagues in Kabul and Lahore to get children with deadly eye cancer out of Afghanistan for critical treatment in Pakistan
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Afghan women hold placards as they march to protest for their rights, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 29, 2023. (AFP)
April 29, 2023, 6:44 pm
Afghan women protest against potential Taliban recognition ahead of UN summit
International forum in Doha set to discuss steps forward, but demonstrators say any deal with country’s rulers means infringing on their rights
By AFP
Illustrative: A Taliban security officer stands guard as Muslim devotees arrive to offer Eid al-Fitr prayers, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Omar mosque in Kandahar on April 21, 2023. (Sanaullah Seiam/AFP)
April 28, 2023, 4:00 pm
Taliban leader says ‘pressure’ won’t work after UN blasts its treatment of women
Unanimous Security Council resolution urges countries ‘to use their influence’ to help reverse restrictive policies in Afghanistan, which the UN has called ‘gender-based apartheid’
By AFP
Taliban fighters stand guard at the explosion site, near the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
April 10, 2023, 6:08 pm
Taliban ban restaurant gardens for families, women in northwestern province
Moves follow complaints from religious scholars and members of the public about mixing of genders, claims women aren’t wearing their hijabs correctly
By AP
A banner with images of women defaced using spray paint, inside a private university after it reopened in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 6, 2023. (Wakil KOHSAR/AFP)
March 6, 2023, 1:16 pm
Afghan universities open solely for men amid ‘heartbreaking’ ban on women
Students voice opposition to prohibition Taliban dubiously claims is temporary, as several ultraconservative advisers to country’s leader remain wary of education for women
By Estelle Emonet and Qubad Wali
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, visiting Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, right, walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping after reviewing an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, February 14, 2023. (Yan Yan/Xinhua via AP, File)
February 16, 2023, 8:47 pm
After protest crackdown, Iran tells Afghanistan to improve conditions for women
Joint statement issued with China after Iranian president visits Beijing also rejects Western standards of human rights and democracy
By AP
File: A Save the Children midwife provides Zarmina, 25, who is five months pregnant, with a pre-natal check-up in Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, October 2, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)
January 13, 2023, 8:48 pm
Taliban urged to reverse ban on female aid workers, end restrictions on Afghan women
Most of UN Security Council backs statement demanding country’s rulers ensure ‘unhindered access for humanitarian actors regardless of gender’
By Edith M. Lederer
Taliban security forces block a road after a suicide blast near Afghanistan's foreign ministry at the Zanbaq Square in Kabul on January 11, 2023. (Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
January 11, 2023, 8:55 pm
Five killed, dozens wounded by suicide blast near Afghan foreign ministry
Taliban claims to have improved security since storming back to power in 2021, but there have been scores of attacks, many claimed by local Islamic State chapter
By Estelle Emonet and Aysha Safi
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