Taliban maraud the streets of Kabul hunting girls as young as 12

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The United Nations says nearly 2,400 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in May and June in escalating violence, the highest number for those months since records started in 2009Aug. 6 - Zaranj in the south of the country becomes the first provincial capital to fall to the Taliban in years.
38% : Under threat of execution, girls were banned from mainstream education after the age of 8 - forcing those who wanted to learn to do so in secret schools.
38% : Khurram, a 22-year-old former youth representative to the United Nations, is just months away from graduating from Kabul University, but she and fellow female students now face an uncertain future.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.