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Reports are coming out that state that female University students were evicted from the "Laila" dormitory at midnight. The power was also cutoff to the dorm. There have also been reports of an increase in military presence in the area as the Taliban implement their ban on women attending higher education.

Yesterday, the Taliban announced that women in Afghanistan are now banned from attending universities. Reports are now coming out stating that women have been turned away from classes at gunpoint today. Below is a photo purportedly of Afghan women in Kabul being kept outside of their university. https://twitter.com/Abid_Graan/status/1605432952011341824?s=20&t=XBWaUsng2gt9mAZyvFExRg

The Afghan offshoot of the U.S. government's Radio Free Europe, Radio Azadi has been banned and shut down by the Taliban. The Taliban stated that the radio station was taken off the air for "non-compliance with journalist principles and one-sided broadcasts". During its heyday, Radio Azadi broadcasted to Afghan listeners the voices of Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. Interestingly, Radio Azadi has...

The Taliban has announced its interest in creating a trade route with China in the historic Wakhan Corridor and connecting Afghanistan to the One Belt One Road Initiative (BRI). Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban Minister of Industry and Commerce, said that the establishment of a trade route in the Wakhan Corridor, which connects Afghanistan to China, would “increase the level of...

The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), an anti-Taliban resistance movement created after the fall of Afghanistan, has claimed responsibility for the assassination of two apparent Taliban Commanders, identified as Hafez and Khalil, in a Kandahar neighborhood on Tuesday. The AFF says that the two were responsible for the torture and murder of former Afghan security force personnel. The group also issued...