The Taliban’s weekend decree ordering women to cover themselves from head to toe in public – and not to leave home unless necessary – is drawing widespread condemnation, but the move was foreseeable, given the group’s unchanged adherence to its distinctive interpretation of shari’a.
Afghanistan's supreme leader has ordered the country's women to cover their faces in public - one of the harshest restrictions imposed on them since the Taliban seized power last year and an escalation of growing restrictions on women that is.
After Biden s retreat, the Taliban have consolidated control over Afghanistan. And over all the hungry children, the girls deprived of an education, and all the other sob stories that kept a river of private charity and taxpayer money flowing into a