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No turban, no class: Afghan boys face strict uniform rules
Male students must wear a light blue shalwar kameez along with a cap up to the age of around 15, afterwards donning white and ...
SFGate21d
The Taliban leader says executions are part of Islam
Rights groups and the U.N. condemned the killings. Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has previously rejected the need for Western laws in Afghanistan. In an audio clip released Sunday by the ...
Rare earth, hard choices: America’s Haqqani gambit in Afghanistan
A realignment inside the Taliban, an unspoken preference for U.S. partnership and a recognition that isolation is a dead end ...
New York Post23d
Taliban morality enforcers arrest men for having the wrong hairstyle or skipping prayers at mosque: UN report
Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images But the Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has emphasized the primacy of Islamic law and the role of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue in reforming ...
Taliban reinforces media ban on broadcasting of living images in Afghanistan’s Faryab province
The Afghan Taliban, in line with their hardline Islamic fundamentalist teachings, have reinforced their media ban on the ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution24d
Taliban morality enforcers arrest men for having the wrong hairstyle or skipping mosque, UN says
The Taliban leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has emphasized the primacy of Islamic law and the role of the Ministry of Vice and Virtue in reforming Afghan society and its people. In a message issued ...