Taliban

Out: depictions of living things, human rights, foreign inventors, and elections. In: the “seeds of hatred against Western countries” and the rest of the Taliban’s core ideology. 

In striking a Pakistani target in Taliban territory, ISKP is harming its two primary battlefield enemies at once.

The Taliban’s nationalist faction, if triumphant over the Pakistan-backed extremists, could help bring peace to the region.

Another tragedy in the largely Hazara Dashti Barchi neighborhood. Another tragedy for Afghanistan’s women. 

As Kabul fell in 2021, journalist Andrew Quilty returned to the city to chronicle history.

If Western governments and humanitarian actors abandon Afghans now, we will be condemning a whole nation to a grinding cycle of brutal poverty with unpredictable long-term consequences.

Tashkent has sought to serve as a broker between the Taliban and the world to keep Afghanistan on the global agenda.

It’s difficult to believe that the Taliban were unaware of al-Zawahiri living in a safe house in the middle of Kabul.

The Taliban promised, again, that Afghan soil would not be used to threaten the security of neighboring countries a day after five rockets landed in an Uzbek border town.

Maryam Baryalay on the political norms and values of the Afghan people.

The Taliban are beset on all sides by difficult borders, and the group’s inability to bring them under control may serve to complicate relations with regional neighbors.