For years the Taliban told women to cover up in public. Now they're cracking down

An Afghan woman, wearing a burqa, visits a hospital in Herat with her child. In early November, agents of the the ministry for the prevention of vice and promotion of virtue fanned out across Herat

At hospitals, at seminaries and on buses, the Taliban is stepping up enforcement of rules on women's dress in the city of Herat.

(Image credit: Wakil Kohsar/AFP)