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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban on Saturday imposed some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan’s women since seizing power, ordering them to cover fully — including their faces — in public, ideally with the traditional burqa.

UNITED NATIONS, United States — The United Nations secretary-general on Saturday slammed a bomb blast in the Afghan capital the day before that ripped through a mosque and killed at least 10 worshippers.

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — At least 33 people were killed and 43 others wounded after a blast rocked a mosque in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz on Friday, chief spokesman of the Taliban-led caretaker government Zabihullah Mujahid said.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban forces have arrested a suspected Islamic State militant who allegedly planned a bomb attack that killed at least 12 worshippers at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan, police said Friday.

KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 16 people were killed in bomb blasts in two Afghan cities on Thursday — attacks claimed by the Islamic State group (IS).

The Philippines has pledged over P5-million aid to support the humanitarian response in Afghanistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday, April 5.

GENEVA, Switzerland – The United Nations urged the world to stand by Afghanistan at a pledging conference on Thursday where it is seeking a record $4.4 billion in humanitarian assistance to the broken country.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have ordered airlines in Afghanistan to stop women from flying unless accompanied by a male relative, in the latest crackdown on basic human rights by the country’s new rulers since seizing power.

KABUL, Afghanistan — About two dozen girls and women chanting “open the schools” protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban’s ecision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week.

WASHINGTON, United States — The United States said Friday that it has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls’ secondary schools.

WASHINGTON, United States – The United States and other Western countries on Thursday condemned the Taliban’s decision to shut girls secondary schools in Afghanistan just hours after reopening them, and urged the hardline Islamist movement to reverse course.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban ordered girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut Wednesday just hours after they reopened, an official confirmed, sparking confusion and heartbreak over the policy reversal by the hardline Islamist group.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban Friday welcomed a UN Security Council resolution formally extending the world body’s presence in Afghanistan, although the government of the hardline Islamist group remains unrecognised by the international community.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban forces on Sunday fired pepper spray at a group of women protesters in Afghanistan’s capital demanding rights to work and education, three demonstrators told AFP.

PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan — Eight commuters were injured following a traffic accident in Afghanistan’s northern province of Baghlan, a local source confirmed on Sunday.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Two women have lost their lives and a teenage girl was seriously wounded by an unexploded ordnance blast in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, a local official confirmed on Wednesday.

KABUL, Afghanistan — One assailant was shot dead by security personnel outside a government office building in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on Thursday, an official of the Ministry of Interior Affairs said.

KABUL — Afghan police have arrested 250 persons related to criminal activities in and around the capital city of Kabul over the past two weeks, Interior Ministry spokesman Qari Sayed Khosti said Sunday.