By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, with solo travelers and ...

Beauty salons are forbidden. Authorities dictate how women dress and have demanded they cover their faces in public, a decree still flouted by many, particularly in Kabul. Some visitors say they ...

Afghanistan’s isolation on the international stage, largely because of the Taliban ’s restrictions on women and girls, has ...

A lock is seen on a beauty salon door in Kabul on July 25, 2023, after the Taliban announced bans on beauty salons in Afghanistan [Siddiqullah Khan/AP] ‘The salon saved me from depression’ ...

Afghan women stage a protest for their rights at a beauty salon in the Shahr-e-Naw area of Kabul [AFP] “We are here for justice,” said another protester who identified herself as Farzana.

Human Rights Afghanistan: Women protest Taliban ban on beauty salons 07/19/2023 Gun shots were fired in the air during a rare public demonstration in Kabul against an order to ban beauty parlors.

In a beauty salon in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, on July 5, 2023. ATIF ARYAN / AFP In Afghanistan, nothing seems to stand in the way of the Taliban regime's policy of excluding Afghan women.

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.