• Planned protests abandoned amid fears of clash as armed patrols, checkpoints blanket city HERAT: Heavily armed security forces deployed across Herat on Friday, prompting residents to scrap planned protests following a crackdown where morality police arrested at least 30 women for alleged dress code violations and violently dispersed a subsequent rally, killing at least two people. Independent experts noted that Taliban forces allegedly fired on men, women, and children on Tuesday, administe...