KABUL – Afghan women are reacting with panic and dismay as a Taliban ban on beauty salons looms in the capital Kabul. It is the latest of dozens of edicts curbing women and girls from public life. The ...

Ms Rodriguez, 46, originally from Michigan, had lived in Kabul for five years and became the second wife of an Afghan man called Sher - an ally of former Northern Alliance leader General Abdul Rashid ...

A Taliban edict issued this month will shutter some 3,000 women-run salons in Kabul. Above: A young woman visits a a beauty salon in Kabul to prepare for a wedding party. A ministry spokesman said the ...

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The Taliban has ordered all beauty shops in Kabul to close by the end of July. These businesses are one of the last places where women can work... Inside Kabul's beauty salons: One of the last places ...