Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has again defended his departure from Kabul in August, saying he had no choice but to leave the country as Taliban militants bore down on the capital after an agreement with the administration of former U.S. President Donald Trump paved the way for their return.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced the appointment of two women to lead U.S. efforts to support Afghan women, girls, and human rights.
Since the Taliban seized power, it has vandalized or destroyed the graves of some of its slain foes, including prominent military commanders in the former Afghan Army. The militants have also targeted monuments dedicated to figures who fought the group during its first stint in power in the 1990s.
Footage taken by protesters on December 28 in Kabul and shared with RFE/RL showed the women chanting slogans and their march being stopped by the Taliban. Several protesters sustained injuries in a stampede after Taliban militants shot in the air to disperse the rally.
The Taliban has released the head of a prominent Afghan television station two days after he was detained.
Some 200 ethnic Kazakhs in Afghanistan have been trying to resettle permanently in their ancestral homeland, Kazakhstan. But their plans have been hampered since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August.
A number of Afghan women have been injured in a stampede caused by Taliban guards firing in the air during a protest in Kabul against discriminatory measures including new travel restrictions on women.
Aref Nouri, the head of Afghanistan's private Nourin television network, has been arrested by the Taliban authorities for unspecified reasons.
In a further move restricting women’s freedoms in Afghanistan, the Taliban says that women seeking to travel more than 72 kilometers should not be offered transport unless they are accompanied by a close male relative.
A Kazakh delegation led by Trade and Integration Minister Bakhyt Sultanov visited Kabul on December 25 to discuss trade, transit routes, and other economic cooperation as well as political ties with the Taliban-led government, Afghan media reported.
The Taliban has dissolved Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC), a panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration.
The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a blast that took place near the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on December 23.
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