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The Taliban killed one of their former leaders who was known as the first commander of the group hailing from the minority Shi'ite Hazara community, officials confirmed on Wednesday, adding that he had rebelled against the de facto government.

For ordinary Afghans -- especially women -- the return of the Taliban has only increased hardships.

Facebook removes Afghan media pages controlled by Taliban

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Wednesday that the ruling Taliban were responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, and inhumane punishments in the 10 months since they seized power.

A group of Afghan children were grazing sheep in fields near the village of Bolak Wandi in eastern Helmand when they spotted a metallic object half-buried in the ground.

Taliban excavate ex-leader Mullah Omar's 'getaway car'

At least one participant at a gathering organised by the Taliban of 3,000 male religious and ethnic leaders from across Afghanistan called on Thursday for high schools for girls to reopen.

The Taliban have put a fashion model, Ajmal Haqiqi, and his three colleagues in jail for allegedly insulting Islam and the Quran.

Male journalists in Afghanistan came out in support of their female colleagues who have been asked by the Taliban to cover their faces on-air.

The report highlighted the lack of a line of command within the government, and "untraceable and unaccountable political interventions".

It seems that the Taliban will only rest after ensuring that all Afghan women have been stripped off their rights and dignity. In their latest diktat, they have asked female TV presenters to cover their faces while on air.

The regressive Taliban government has now barred men and women from eating out at restaurants together in the western Afghan city of Herat. The rule even needs to be followed by married couple.

The Afghan Taliban in its latest decree has yet again attacked women and their freedom to choose what they wish to wear in public places.

The Taliban in its latest diktat have reportedly stopped issuing driving licenses to women in Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan.

The Afghanistan Taliban have now banned TikTok and PUBG saying that the apps are "misleads the younger generation."

The Afghanistan Taliban in its latest diktat has asked all male government employees to wear a beard to office or risk being fired from the job.

Days after backtracking on its promise to allow re-opening of girls' school beyond sixth grade, the Taliban have now allegedly ordered that women in Afghanistan cannot board flights without a male chaperone.

The Taliban had promised a softer version of the harsh Islamist rule that characterised their first stint in power from 1996 to 2001.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has lashed out at the Taliban for backtracking on its promise to allow girls to get an education.

The Taliban backtracked on its decision to open schools for girls beyond 6th grade, just hours before the schools were to open for the first time since August last year.

The family of Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalists Danish Siddiqui has approached the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking for a probe into his death.

Since the Taliban returned in August, Afghanistan's economy has virtually collapsed

After the takeover of Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban had promised they would respect the rights of women "within the limits of Islam," but things on the ground say otherwise.

Taliban officials recently held talks with Western powers in Oslo to address the humanitarian crisis

The Taliban authorities have blocked women public sector employees from returning to work

Respect for women's rights has repeatedly been cited by key global donors as a condition for restoring aid.

Central to the questioning was why the most senior civil servant in the Foreign Office, Philip Barton, was on leave from August 9 to 26 at the same time as his boss, Dominic Raab.

The Taliban demanded that the claims be backed by evidence.

Although both IS and the Taliban are hardline Sunni Islamist militants, they differ on details of religion and strategy.

EU states are wary at the prospect of a surge of Afghan asylum-seekers trying to enter the bloc