The Taliban issued new rules today that require women to cover their faces in public, saying the ideal covering is the head-to-toe burqa.
with the "Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice."
Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26.
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