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July 22, 2025 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: In a renewed and intensified assault on women’s freedoms, the Taliban has launched a wave of arbitrary arrests across Afghanistan, targeting women and girls accused of violating the group’s extreme interpretation of hijab rules. Over the past week alone, dozens of women have been detained in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar-e-Sharif, under vague and ever-changing standards of “modesty,” with no due process or legal justification. These arrests are taking place in public spaces — streets, shopping malls, cafes, and university campuses — where women are simply trying to go about their daily lives. Full news...
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July 18, 2025 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: More than 200 Afghan soldiers and police murdered by the Taliban since a “kill list” was leaked by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) have been named in a dossier. Their names were compiled by independent caseworkers highlighting the plight of Afghans who worked with British and US forces. But a court order imposed by a senior judge prevents The Telegraph from reporting whether the dead had first appeared on the MoD list, which was accidentally made public in February 2022. Full news...
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July 16, 2025 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Afghan refugees, many of them lone women, at the Islam Qala border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran after their deportation in June. Women forced back to living under the Taliban’s increasingly repressive regime have spoken of their desperation as Iran accelerates the deportation of an estimated 4 million Afghans who had fled to the country. In the past month alone, more than 250,000 people, including thousands of lone women, have returned to Afghanistan from Iran Full news...
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July 6, 2025 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Iran over the past weeks since Tehran gave more than four million undocumented Afghan migrants until July 6 to leave the country, the United Nations said, raising alarm over a dire shortage of funding to assist the returnees. More than 256,000 Afghans returned to their country from Iran in June alone, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Full news...
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July 2, 2025 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWANews: Fresh violence has broken out in Khash district of Badakhshan province, where armed clashes between Taliban forces and local residents have resulted in at least seven deaths and more than 40 injuries over the past two days, local sources report. The unrest began after Taliban fighters intervened in a funeral ceremony for victims of earlier violence in the area. Residents opposed their presence, triggering violent confrontations. Some news outlets have reported that up to 15 people were killed by the Taliban during the crackdown. Full news...