Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...

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The namesake of Mazar-i-Sharif suffered countless cracks in a 6.3-magnitude quake, but, like Afghanistan, it has endured for centuries. By Yaqoob Akbary Safiullah Padshah and Elian Peltier Yaqoob ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Afghan women again took to the streets to call for their rights be preserved under Taliban rule -- this time in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif.