Afghanistan: Protests For Women's Rights In Kabul Are Met With Violence By The Taliban.

According to the Taliban, the protests have spiraled out of control, according to Afghan media Tolo News. This is the latest of several protests by women in Kabul and Herat. Women demand the right to work and the right to enter the government. The Taliban want to announce the composition of their government in the coming days.

The Taliban say women can run for the government but not for ministerial posts.

Many women fear that they will be treated like before the Taliban came to power between 1996 and 2001. "When the Taliban came twenty-five years ago, they prevented me from going to school," journalist Azita Nazimi told Tolo.

"After five years of your reign, I have studied and worked hard for 25 years. But, for our better future, we will not allow this." Another protester, Soraya, told Reuters: "They also hit the women in the head with a gun shop, and the women were bleeding."

"This, in turn, will create conditions that could lead to the restoration of al-Qaeda or the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS)," he told Fox News. Meanwhile, the head of the British armed forces, General Sir Nick Carter, defended military intelligence against criticism for failing to forecast the Taliban's progress, saying that even the Taliban themselves were surprised at how easily they took control.

He told the that "a lot of money has changed hands because they have managed to buy back people who may have fought for them." Clashes continued over the weekend in the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, where insurgents thwarted Taliban control efforts. A spokesman for the Afghan National Resistance Front (NRF) said heavy fighting was continuing, and thousands of Taliban had been surrounded.