In 2022, a man in Kabul covered his face to protect his identity, as he showed his harmonium musical instrument. The Taliban have begun to burn these instruments, and others. Hussein Malla/AP hide caption
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Marzia Mohammadi, left, and Hajar Mohammadi were best friends and cousins who died in a suicide bombing at a learning center in Kabul. Marzia's diary captures both the hopes and fears of young Afghan women, particularly Hazaras, under Taliban rule. Mohammadi Family hide caption
Tuesday
A composite photo shows TV anchors Hamed Bahram (left) and Nesar Nabil wearing face masks while reading the news on TOLOnews, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. Ebrahim Noroozi/AP hide caption
Tuesday
Dr. Saleema Rehman stands outside Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The Afghan refugee of Turkmen origin has won UNHCR's Nansen Award for her work helping refugee moms and babies in Pakistan. Betsy Joles for NPR hide caption
Friday
Girls gather at a gender-segregated school in Kabul on Sept. 15. When older secondary students returned to classes, female students were told to wait. Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Taliban fighters sit on the back of a pickup truck as they stop on a hillside in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 19. Felipe Dana/AP hide caption
Sunday
Women march to demand their rights under the Taliban rule during a demonstration near the former Women's Affairs Ministry building in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. The interim mayor of Afghanistan's capital said that many female city employees have been ordered to stay home by the country's new Taliban rulers. AP hide caption
Female Government Workers In Kabul Told To Stay Home In Latest Taliban Rule
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Thursday
Protesters march in Kabul on Wednesday, a day after the Taliban announced their all-male interim government. At left, a protester carries a sign with a photo showing Banu Negar, a pregnant police officer who was killed in front of her relatives early this week in Ghor province. Family members accuse the Taliban of carrying out the killing. Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption
Monday
Afghans rush to the Hamid Karzai International Airport as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Kabul. Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Internally displaced Afghan women from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, receive medical care in a public park in Kabul last Tuesday. Rahmat Gul/AP hide caption
Sunday
Players from the Herat Storm celebrate after winning the championship of the Afghan women's soccer league on October 16 in Kabul. Rahmatullah Alizadah/Xinhua via Getty Images hide caption
Friday
"What makes me hopeful about women's rights in Afghanistan is that women themselves, they have their own voice," Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S., tells NPR. Amr Alfiky/NPR hide caption
Tuesday
U.S. and Taliban negotiators meet in Doha, Qatar, on Feb. 26. Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP hide caption
Saturday
A boy holds the burqa of his mother as they walk down a street in the old city of Kabul on November 1, 2009. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: As U.S. Seeks To Withdraw Troops, What About Afghanistan's Women?
Tuesday
Lubna Olayan in her office at Olayan Financing Company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in April. Fatma Tanis/NPR hide caption