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The Taliban have said that they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women.

It comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn't wear the Islamic headscarf correctly.

A rare inside account of the Taliban authorities' impact on Afghan women hits screens next week with the smartphone-filmed documentary "Bread & Roses."

An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming U.N. climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power.

The Taliban have introduced a new rule restricting Afghan women from hearing each other's voices, an additional step toward erasing women's presence in public life, as reported by the New York Post. Taliban Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Khalid Hanafi, reportedly decreed that women must not be able to hear one another's voices, even during prayer.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) had ruled Friday that gender and nationality alone were sufficient for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban have sharply curtailed women's rights.

Iran's military has built a wall along more than 10 kilometers (6 miles) of its eastern border with Afghanistan, the main entry point for immigrants, local media reported on Monday.

First, it was women – or, rather, it was always women. Draconian measures against them, restrictions on their appearance, education, social life, terror… Now, the… absurd, in many cases, laws imposed by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan are beginning to touch men, forcing them to ask themselves: should they have spoken up earlier is the question.

He was the commander who oversaw the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, a move he later described as "doomed from the start." General (ret.) Frank Mckenzie was called upon to end the 20-year US presence in the hot zone of Afghanistan and saw the Taliban regain power within days.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers celebrated three years in power on Wednesday with a military parade paying homage to their homemade bombs used in war, fighter aircraft and goose-stepping security forces.

Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, U.N. Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as she defended a decision to sideline civil society groups at official talks in Doha.