Afghanistan

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Health

Afghanistan's depleted dining rugs are a reminder of hunger and loss

As members of the middle class have fallen into poverty in the wake of the Taliban takeover, families are no longer able to serve sumptuous repasts on their traditional dining rugs.
Zuhal Ahad

Ruchi Kumar
Business

Male Afghan TV anchors cover faces in solidarity with women after a Taliban order

Male anchors in Afghanistan are wearing masks on air in solidarity with their female colleagues. This is the latest Taliban order to threaten the freedoms and careers of Afghan women.
Rachel Treisman
World

The Taliban say Afghan female TV anchors must cover their faces on air

The order came from the Taliban's Virtue and Vice Ministry as well as from the Information and Culture Ministry. Earlier this month, the Taliban ordered women in public to wear head-to-toe clothing.
The Associated Press
Opinion: The return of the burqa in Afghanistan

Women in Afghanistan continue to experience more restrictions under the Taliban, including the return of the burqa. NPR's Scott Simon notes how the world seems to be distracted from their plight.
Scott Simon
Education

In a reversal, the Taliban bars Afghan girls from attending school beyond 6th grade

The rulers' decision — reneging on a previous promise — came at the start of the new school year in Afghanistan and risks further alienating the international community.
The Associated Press
National

Sick veterans demand medical coverage for illnesses caused by burn pits

President Biden is urging Congress to send a burn-pits bill to his desk.
Quil Lawrence
Arts & Life

She returned to the NW when the Taliban took power. Now she's back in Afghanistan — by choice

‘Taliban are who are here. We need to support the Afghan process of re-establishing the government. I'm an American. One day, the Taliban were my enemy. In the next week, they were my neighbors, and I had to work with them.’
Kim Malcolm

John O'Brien
Northwest soldier tries to save Afghan teammates from Taliban

Winter is bearing down hard in Afghanistan. The country is heading toward famine. And men who worked for the U.S. government clearing IEDs are being hunted by the Taliban. This is the story of one Army Special Forces soldier from the Northwest who’s trying to help.
Anna King
Health

No pay for staff. No patient supplies. No heat. This is health care in Afghanistan

When the Taliban took over, predictions were made that the country's health care system would collapse. That's no longer just a forecast, says Dr. Paul Spiegel after his five-week mission there.
Susan Brink
Arts & Life

This 19th-century short story might help combat racism against refugees today

India's Rabindranath Tagore was the first nonwhite writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature. His 1892 story, "The Kabuliwala," fostered empathy for migrants and refugees. It still resonates today.
Lauren Frayer

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