Once emblematic of a transformed city, cafe culture is disappearing from the Afghan capital
By Arezo Rahimi On the morning of August 15, Mina Rezaee‘s cafe was open, but unlike any other day over...
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Human Rights Watch: Taliban’s new media restrictions are attempt to silence criticism
By Zahra Nader Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan three months ago, the group has threatened journalists and is imposing...
One-third of students at Samangan’s only private university walk out in wake of Taliban takeover
By Shakiba Hakimi From the 650 students who were registered in the only private university in the northern province of...
Internally displaced families are living on the streets in Ghor province
By M.Mursal As the humanitarian crisis pushes half of Afghanistan’s population towards starvation, displaced families are living on the streets...
Measles cases on the rise in western Afghanistan
By Kobra Nader and M. Mursal Cases of measles are rising rapidly in hospitals across the central and western provinces...
Chaos, violence, discrimination at the Taliban passport office in Kabul
By Laila Yousufi It was dark, around 5:30 am in the Afghan capital, Kabul when I arrived near the passport...
The Taliban released a confessional video of a woman retracting an earlier claim of torture and sexual assault by the group
By Zahra Nader After a video went viral of an anonymous Afghan woman describing how the Taliban captured her and...
CNN’s bombshell report on child marriage was staged, say family and friends
By M. Mursal and Zahra Nader The alleged sale of an Afghan man’s 9-year-old daughter to a man six times...
They were journalists. Now these Afghan women are making embroidery to survive
By Laila Yousufy Until August 15, Salima Muradi was a journalist, working for a radio station in the Afghan capital,...
Weeks ago a teenager pleaded to the Taliban to open schools for girls. The group confirmed the schools in Herat can be opened from today
By Maryam Mursal When the Taliban celebrated the Prophet Mohammad’s birthday in the western city of Herat on October 21,...
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