Human Rights Watch says the Taliban detained 6 staff of a women’s and children’s rights group

ANKARA, Turkey -- Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have “forcibly disappeared” six staff members of a local organization working on women’s and children’s rights, a U.S.-based advocacy group said, following a separate U.N. report that two Afghan employees of its mission in the country were detained.The reported detentions come as Afghanistan's Taliban rulers prepare to mark the fifth anniversary of their return to power on Saturday.The six men — employees of the Women and Children Legal Research Foundation — were detained on July 18 after they were told to come to their office to retrieve confiscated laptops and phones, Human Rights Watch said in a statement released late Wednesday. Their families were given no information about their whereabouts, their condition or possible charges.Human Rights Watch called on the Taliban to allow family and lawyers to visit the detained and for them to be “immediately released unless they have been charged with a recognizable offense.”The statement came after the U.N. said two Afghan members of its political mission were detained on Sunday in the western city of Herat by the Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence. The U.N. mission has not...