One and a half months in power in Afghanistan, the Taliban has already reinforced people’s feara about the return of the dark days of the nineties as the policies adopted by the group so far have offered few incentives to believe otherwise

Thousands of Afghans managed to get out of their country by faking their professions as journalists and activists, claimed the Afghanistan Civil Society And Journalist Group, which lashed out at western countries for not vetting applications properly

An international inquiry into the Afghan war crime case is likely to be resumed as the prosector has sought permission from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for an investigation into the crimes committed by the Taliban and the ISIS-K, a media report said

International recognition of the Taliban government was not currently under consideration, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, adding his country's approach is in line with those of Pakistan, US, and China to see if the group forms a truly inclusive government as it had promised earlier

Many businesses and shops owned and run by women in Kabul, the Afghan capital, are closing their operations amid harsh economic conditions and an oppressive atmosphere with the return of the Taliban in Kabul, media reports say

The Taliban on Tuesday announced new appointments, all male and mostly deputies ministers,  for their interim government and included two powerful field commanders from the group’s southern stronghold to balance what many calls regional power dynamics within the group

Educated women protested in Kabul over the apparent ban the Taliban has put on girls from attending secondary schools where boys have been allowed to resume their learning

Independent journalists in Afghanistan will “just disappear”, warned the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), a global trade union of media workers, as over 153 media outlets ceased their operations since the Taliban take over in the country last month, and the prospect of an independent media looks “bleak”

Pakistan booked a cleric for sedition and terror charges after he hoisted the Afghan Taliban flag--the third time since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan-- on the rooftop of a seminary he runs in the country’s capital Islamabad

In what comes as another blow to Afghan women, the Taliban abolished the country’s Ministry of Women Affairs, almost a month after the group seized power in Afghanistan, toppling the US-backed government in Kabul and replaced it with the “Ministry of Vice and Virtue.”

Supporters of two Taliban leaders indulged in a brawl earlier this month at the presidential palace in Kabul days after the group announced the new interim government, a report in BBC Pashto claimed, indicating serious differences among different groups in the movement

Thousands of people, including women, in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, took to the streets, protesting against the Taliban which has ordered them to vacate their houses in government-owned residential colonies just weeks before the winter season was to set in

Qatar's foreign minister visited Afghanistan--the first foreign leader to do so since the Taliban took power--and held talks with senior officials of the Taliban’s recently announced interim government

The Taliban announced on Sept. 7, 2021, that Mullah Hasan Akhund has been appointed interim prime minister of Afghanistan. The decision comes more than two weeks after the militant Islamist group seized control of much of the country, including the capital, Kabul. The Conversation asked Ali A. Olomi, a historian of the Middle East and Islam at Penn State University, to explain who Mullah Akhund is, and what his appointment may portend for Afghanistan amid concern over human rights in the war-ravaged nation.

A day after the Taliban announced its interim government in Afghanistan, packed with hardline leaders of the movement, the group has still a long way to go for getting international recognition