As part of the Taliban’s continued anti-women policies, religious schools are now also being closed to Afghan girls. Al Arabiya reported on Wednesday, August 20, that Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered the gradual suspension of girls’ enrollment in religious schools.

At least 79 people, including 19 children, have lost their lives in a traffic accident on the ring road of Herat province. The victims were mostly returnee migrants from Iran.

UN Women has warned that four years after the Taliban’s return to power, Afghan women and girls are being deprived of their fundamental rights; deprivations that are severely threatening their health, education, and security.

Shamayel Tawanah Naseri, head of the “Afghanistan Women’s Movement for Justice and Freedom,” says that her brother, Mohammad Naseri, has been arrested by Taliban intelligence and that her family still has no information about his fate.