The Taliban said on September 21 Afghan girls will be allowed to return to school “as soon as possible”, after their movement faced shock and fury over their effective exclusion of women and girls from public life.
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Agence France-Presse: Taliban says girls to return to school ‘soon as possible’
A Taliban fighter stands guard atop a vehicle near the site of an Ashura procession which is held to mark the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, along a road in Herat on Aug. 19, 2021, amid the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan.
