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Afghan Province Reopens Girls’ Schools Without Taliban Permission

Mawlawi Khaliqyar Ahmadzai, head of the culture and information department for the government of Paktia province of Afghanistan, said on Tuesday that high schools for girls have been reopened, without permission from the Taliban, which has suppressed education for women ever since they seized power in August 2021.

TOPSHOT - Schoolgirls attend class in Herat on August 17, 2021, following the Taliban stun

CBS’ Green: Not Surprising We Had Problems with Afghan Vetting in Midst of ‘Chaos’

During a report from CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge on the CBS News Streaming Network on Wednesday, co-host Anne-Marie Green stated that the Inspector General’s report on the problems vetting evacuees from Afghanistan isn’t really a surprise, given how chaotic the exit from Afghanistan was and that the report’s findings that people who may be security risks were admitted into the U.S. while people who helped the U.S. haven’t been able to get out of Afghanistan highlights how “incredibly broken” the system is.

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Suicide Bomber Kills Two at Russian Embassy in Kabul

A suicide bomber attacked the Russian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the bomber was gunned down by Taliban guards before entering the premises, but still got close enough to kill two embassy staffers.

A Taliban fighter stands guard in front of the Russian embassy after a suicide attack in K

Report: Taliban Engaging in ‘Routine Torture’ of Afghan Christians

Christians who have remained in Afghanistan since the Sunni Islam-based Taliban terror group seized control of the country last August “face routine torture and persecution” from Taliban members and various other Afghans, the Afghan newspaper Etilaat Roz reported on Monday citing an original report by Fox News.

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Taliban Conducting Door-to-Door Raids to Confiscate Guns

Members of Afghanistan’s Taliban conducted door-to-door raids of homes in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday in part to search for and confiscate weapons, including firearms, deemed “illegal” by the terror group, which seized control of Afghanistan’s government in August 2021, the Kabul-based Khaama Press News Agency reported.

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Taliban Supreme Leader Says Foreign Affairs Will Follow Islamic Law

Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada held a meeting of some 3,000 tribal and regional officials in Kandahar on Thursday, during which he said foreign affairs would be conducted in accordance with the Taliban’s notion of Islamic sharia law. In other words, he was pledging to ignore international human rights concerns, including objections to the Taliban’s barbaric treatment of women.

Afghan burqa-clad women carry flags as they walk along a street to celebrate the Taliban's