The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new ban which has also outlawed the teaching of human rights and sexual harassment.

A Taliban crackdown to “prevent immorality” is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fiber-optic internet after the country’s leader imposed a complete ban on the technolo

The Taliban administration on Wednesday announced an internet ban across a swathe of northern Afghanistan, “to prevent immoral activities,” provincial government statements said.

A new push to cut nationwide access to the digital world is taking Afghanistan back to the isolationist extremes of decades past

No information was provided on how many people are being held in each country, who they are or why they were imprisoned.

The Taliban administration has banned fibre-optic internet in an Afghan province to “prevent immorality,” a spokesman for it said on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.