In a sweltering city in Afghanistan, taxis have been spotted with scrubby barrels and exhaust tubes mounted to their roofs.

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The BBC spends the day with women across Afghanistan to understand what their lives look like under the Taliban government.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recorded as many as 28,000 Afghans leaving Iran in a single day in June, ...

The Taliban has told the BBC it will endeavour to release two British nationals who have been arrested and held in Afghanistan "as soon as possible". Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75 ...

The Taliban say 90,000 CCTV cameras in Kabul will reduce crime but there are fears for human rights.

However, it does not have its own police force and so relies on member states to carry out any arrests.

The Taliban has told the BBC it will "endeavour" to release two British nationals who have been arrested and held in Afghanistan "as soon as possible".

The Taliban government has not been formally recognised by any other country. The surveillance system the BBC is shown in Kabul features the option to track people by facial recognition.