the Taliban’s Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice ordered the closure of about 12,000 women’s salons in Afghanistan. As a result, tens of thousands of women who had been ...

Since seizing power in 2021, Afghanistan's Taliban administration has rolled back hard-fought rights won by Afghan women and girls during two decades of rule by American-backed governments.

It is one of the few places in Afghanistan where women like her can work since the Taliban came back into power in 2021. "When I worked in a beauty salon, it was good," she said. "The pay was good.

The ICC chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the "unprecedented, ...