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The Guardian says two senior Taliban leaders have gone missing from public view, leading some Afghans to question whether the group’s supreme leader and new deputy prime minister are alive.

Aljazeera says women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and head coverings will be compulsory.

Arab News says demonstrations without permission have become illegal in Afghanistan after the appointment of an interim Taliban government.

Afghanistan’s former President, Ashraf Ghani, has apologised to the people of Afghan after fleeing the country to take refuge in the UAE whilst the Taliban took over.

The i says videos and pictures have emerged on social media of Taliban soldiers firing shots into the air to disperse crowds of protesters marching through Kabul.

The Taliban claims it now has full control of the whole of Afghanistan after completing the take over of Panjshir province, the last area being held by resistance forces.

Multiple rockets were fired at Kabul’s international airport but were intercepted by a missile defense system, a US official told Reuters citing initial information.

The US destroyed Eagle Base, the last CIA base in Kabul, to keep equipment and information from falling into the hands of the Taliban, US officials told the New York Times.

The US president asked the Pentagon and State Department to draw up contingency plans to alter the timeline “should that become necessary.”

Taliban told Iran to continue exports of petroleum products which the latter had paused over safety concerns.