Taliban sets up 'virtue' ministry at former site of women's affairs department

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry, escorting out World Bank staffers Saturday as part of the forced move.

It’s the latest troubling sign that the Taliban are restricting women’s rights as they settle into government, just a month since they overran the capital, Kabul. The Taliban had denied girls and women the right to education and barred them from public life in their first period of rule in the 1990s.

Separately, three explosions targeted Taliban vehicles in the eastern