The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. is set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war.| AP News
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S and NATO forces withdrew from the country after more than two decades of war.| AP News
The Taliban swept into Afghanistan’s capital after the embattled president joined the exodus of his fellow citizens and foreigners.| AP News
Aid agencies say the international community must increase funding to Afghanistan. That's after a deadly earthquake killed at least 1,400 and injured thousands more.| AP News
A Taliban government spokesman says the death toll from a major earthquake in Afghanistan has risen to 2,205.| AP News
Die Taliban in Afghanistan verwehren Frauen jetzt auch die Hochschulbildung – und setzen die Kontakte zur internationalen Gemeinschaft aufs Spiel.| taz.de
Auf die Machtübernahme der Taliban folgen Chaos und Angst: Plünderungen, Selbstzensur, Angriffe auf Frauen.| taz.de
Afghanistans Taliban schließen auch medizinische Lehreinrichtungen für Frauen. Damit erlischt eine der letzten Möglichkeiten zur Hochschulbildung.| taz.de
Die Taliban brechen kurzfristig ihre frühere Zusage, dass Schülerinnen ab Klasse 7 wieder zum Unterricht kommen dürfen. Die Gründe bleiben unklar.| taz.de
Afghanistans Taliban verschließen Mädchen nun auch den Zugang zu religiösen Schulen. Damit bleibt ihnen nur noch der Besuch von Grundschulen offen.| taz.de
Russia on Thursday became the first country to formally recognise the Taliban's government in Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021, after Moscow removed the group from its list of outlawed organisations.| Kashmir Observer
The Taliban must alter their zero-sum mentality and seriously commit to bringing peace to Afghanistan before it is too late. The post Why Do Taliban Continue to Kill If They Are Serious about Peace? appeared first on Foreign Policy Journal.| Foreign Policy Journal
The current political crisis in Afghanistan is actually an important step towards a realistic peaceful solution: a political “unsettlement”. The post Afghan Peace is Now About the Art of the Possible, Not the Perfect appeared first on Foreign Policy Journal.| Foreign Policy Journal
New York, April 18, 2025—Taliban authorities must immediately release independent journalist Sayed Rashed Kashefi, who was detained April 14 by General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) agents in the capital Kabul, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. “Taliban intelligence must release journalist Sayed Rashed Kashefi immediately and unconditionally,” said CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Beh Lih...| Committee to Protect Journalists
Less than ten years ago a judgment was delivered in the case of a 14-year-old schoolgirl who had been violently raped by a boy of... The post The Taliban Conquering Europe appeared first on Disenz.| Disenz
He noted that the anger and feelings of the US leadership at that time would have made it difficult to reconcile with the IEA, but the IEA members, in conversations in Doha, blamed Karzai and the Northern Alliance figures.| Ariana News
Several rights groups have urged the UN Human Rights Council to establish an independent mechanism for Afghanistan to investigate allegations of rights abuses, including crimes against humanity.| KabulNow
Pakistan’s Special Representative on Afghanistan, Asif Durrani, said that terrorism originating from Afghanistan impacts not only Pakistan but also neighboring countries such as China, Iran, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.| KabulNow
The world has bookmarked the Taliban as a problematic but mostly benign thorn in the side of global society. For women in Afghanistan, however, the threat is all-encompassing| The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
A Taliban spokesman says authorities have arrested women in the Afghan capital Kabul for wearing “bad hijab.”| AP News
On August 15 Taliban forces entered Afghanistan’s capital Kabul and occupied the abandoned presidential palace, ending a military campaign that had begun in early May. The US-backed Afghan authorities collapsed as President Ashraf Ghani and other senior government figures fled the country. The Taliban are expected to announce the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of […]View post to subscribe to site newsletter.| The Greater China Journal
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