Afghanistan

Pada akhir Mac lalu, Taliban yang mengambil alih pentadbiran Afghanistan tidak membenarkan remaja perepuan ke sekolah menangah dan kolej di negara itu.

At the end of March, the Taliban, who took power after US forces withdrew from the country last August, closed high schools and colleges for girls just hours after their reopening.

It is the latest in a slew of Taliban restrictions on women, including banning them from any government jobs, secondary education and travelling alone outside their cities

Syrian citizens accounted for over a quarter of successful asylum cases last year, followed by Afghans and Venezuelans.

Security concerns have risen across Afghanistan as the country prepares to mark Eid on Sunday under Taliban rule for the first time in more than 20 years.

Daesh Khurasan mengaku bertanggungjawab terhadap sembilan korban akibat serangan itu.

The blasts occurred within minutes of each other in different districts of Mazar-i-Sharif as commuters were heading home to break their dawn-to-dusk fast.

Children are believed to be among the dead in the blast on Friday at a mosque in the northern province of Kunduz.

This includes 10 at a mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, the second attack against a Shiite target this week.

The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on Aug 15 amid the hasty withdrawal of US-led foreign forces, and the country's humanitarian crisis has rapidly worsened since.

The move comes after the Taliban backtracked on their commitment to open high schools to girls, a U-turn that shocked many Afghans and drew condemnation from humanitarian agencies and foreign governments.

Crestfallen students, back in class for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August last year, tearfully packed up their belongings and filed out.