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Mothers along with babies who suffer from malnutrition wait to receive help and check-up at a clinic that run by the WFP, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. A spokesman for the U.N. food agency says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs. Aid agencies have been providing food, education, healthcare and other critical support to people, but distribution has been severely impacted by a Taliban edict banning women from working at national and international nongovernmental groups. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN food agency: Afghan malnutrition rates at record high

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women’s rights

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

Afghan rulers urged to reverse ban on women aid workers

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

Taliban ban on women workers hits vital aid for Afghans

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghan girls who practice wushu, a Chinese martial art, pose for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. The ruling Taliban have banned women from sports as well as barring them from most schooling and many realms of work. A number of women posed for an AP photographer for portraits with the equipment of the sports they loved. Though they do not necessarily wear the burqa in regular life, they chose to hide their identities with their burqas because they fear Taliban reprisals and because some of them continue to practice their sports in secret. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Citing Taliban, Australia nixes Afghanistan cricket series

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Afghan mixed martial arts fighter poses for a photo with her trophies in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The ruling Taliban have banned women from sports as well as barring them from most schooling and many realms of work. A number of women posed for an AP photographer for portraits with the equipment of the sports they loved. Though they do not necessarily wear the burqa in regular life, they chose to hide their identities with their burqas because they fear Taliban reprisals and because some of them continue to practice their sports in secret. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghan women athletes barred from play, fear Taliban threats

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Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, Jan Egeland, listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. The Taliban's "internal debates and extreme decrees" are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, the head of a major aid agency told The Associated Press on Sunday, after he arrived on a week-long trip to talk to Taliban leaders about reversing a ban on women working for national and international nongovernmental groups. Jan Egeland, who is the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the first NGO chief to have visited Afghanistan to talk to the Taliban since the ban came into effect more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Aid chief: Taliban decrees against women paralyzing NGO work

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

In this Nov. 3, 2012, file photo, Britain's Prince Harry, right, or just plain Capt. Wales as he is known in the British Army, races out from the VHR (very high readiness) tent to scramble his Apache with fellow pilots, during his 12-hour shift at the British-controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool, File)

Prince Harry’s new memoir draws anger and protests in Afghanistan

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Bullets and broken glass scatter the compound where there was a fight between Taliban fighters and the Islamic State group in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. The Afghan Taliban have killed eight Islamic State group fighters and arrested nine others in raids against the militants' hideouts on Wednesday, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Does the U.S. bear responsibility for the Taliban’s atrocities in Afghanistan?

By Billy Hallowell

Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J., on Sept. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Afghan refugees in U.S. face uncertainty as legislation stalls

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest blow to female rights and freedoms since the Taliban seized power last year and follows sweeping restrictions on education, employment, clothing and travel. (AP Photo, File)

U.N. official, Taliban minister meet about Afghan women NGO ban

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Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest blow to female rights and freedoms since the Taliban seized power last year and follows sweeping restrictions on education, employment, clothing and travel. (AP Photo, File)

3 NGOs suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bar women

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A classroom that previously was used for girls sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The country's Taliban rulers earlier this week ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities effective immediately and until further notice. They have banned girls from middle school and high school, barred women from most fields of employment and ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. Women are also banned from parks and gyms.(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani, File)

DHS deports Afghan evacuee who sexually abused 3-year-old girl

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo)

Turkey, Saudi Arabia decry Taliban university ban for women

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Afghan students walk toward their university in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ** FILE **

Afghan women weep as Taliban fighters enforce university ban

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Arefeh 40-year-old, an Afghan woman leaves an underground school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban says women banned from universities in Afghanistan

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Security officials stand guard on a blocked road leading to a counter-terrorism center where several Pakistani Taliban detainees have taken police officers and others hostage inside the compound, in Bannu, a district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Several Pakistani Taliban detainees have managed to overpower their guards at the counter-terrorism center, snatching police weapons and taking control of the facility, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Muhammad Hasib)

Officials say Pakistan raid kills all Taliban hostage-takers

By Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Smoke rises from a hotel building after an explosions and gunfire in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. A Taliban official says that a hotel building has come under a complex attack in the Afghan capital Kabul. (AP Photo)

Taliban: Assailants attack hotel in Afghan capital Kabul

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Batool Haidari, 37, talks during an interview with the Associated Press on a train taking her from her home on the outskirts of Rome, to the capital's center, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Batool Haidari was a prominent professor of sexology at a university in Kabul before last year’s Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. She used to lecture mixed classes of male and female students and look after her patients struggling with their gender identity. That comfortable life came to an abrupt halt on Aug. 15, 2021, when the ultra-religious group swept back into power. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Afghan academic rebuilds life in Italy, dreams of returning

By Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press