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Afghans scrapped protest plans in Herat on Friday as heavily armed security forces were deployed in the city, after an earlier rally against tightening restrictions on women was violently dispersed.
News Afghanistan » Herat » Social: Influencers are travelling to Afghanistan 25 years on from 9/11
In a video mocking those who claim Afghanistan is too dangerous to visit, Polish travel influencer Izabela dangles her legs over the edge of a cliff and lets her hair blow in the wind, showing off the ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Social: Social media restrictions and two-day internet shutdown rattle Afghanistan
Airports and banks were forced to shut down. Government employees idled aimlessly in the corridors of their ministries. Teenage girls, barred from attending school, lost much of their access to the ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Social: In aid-starved Afghanistan, relief workers fight a forgotten hunger crisis
When Khalid Riaz turns off a dusty, single-lane road into a village in Guzara district, half an hour south of the bustling heart of Herat city in western Afghanistan, he is immediately greeted by a ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Social: The Herat arrests are a defining moment of Taliban repression in Afghanistan
Since August 2021, the systematic dismantling of women’s rights in Afghanistan has unfolded through successive decrees that have banned girls from secondary education and universities, excluded women ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Social: Taliban release two detained UN staff members in Afghanistan
The two men, detained in the western city of Herat on August 9, were released on Thursday morning.
News Afghanistan » Herat » Social: Taliban Forces Fire On Afghan Women Protesting New Restrictions
Afghanistan’s Taliban government used live fire to disperse a protest in the western city of Herat over new restrictions on women, eyewitnesses told RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi. One eyewitness said that at ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Social: Afghan women's cancer crisis deserves its own response
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) already account for an estimated 43% of all deaths in Afghanistan1 and are projected to exceed 60% by 2030, mainly among women. However, access to cancer care remains ...
News Afghanistan » Herat » Social: Afghan Taliban Enforces 'Proper Hijab' With Detentions And Beatings Of Women
Fear has gripped Afghanistan's third city as the Taliban government violently enforces a stricter dress code for women. Members of the Taliban's notorious morality police have arrested and even ...