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  • Fears of widening gender inequality in Afghanistan as Saudi Arabia joins calls to Taliban to keep university doors open to women

    The announcement is only the latest in a series of ever-stricter restrictions on the freedoms of Afghan women, which now include mandatory face coverings and a ban on travel without a male escort. Public frustration with the regime and its oppressive policies appears to be growing, in echoes of the current women-led protest movement in neighboring Iran, according to Afghanistan’s former national security adviser.

  • Turkey, Saudi Arabia decry Taliban university ban for women

    Turkey and Saudi Arabia became the latest Muslim-majority countries to condemn a decision by Taliban authorities to bar women from universities, while about two dozen women staged a protest in the streets of Kabul on Thursday. In another sign of domestic opposition, several Afghan cricketers condemned the university ban. Cricket is a hugely popular sport in Afghanistan, and players have hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.

  • Female students turned away from Afghan universities after Taliban ban

    Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on Wednesday after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education. The decision to bar women was announced on Tuesday evening in a letter to universities from the higher education ministry, drawing condemnation from foreign governments and the United Nations.

  • Afghans Sink Deeper Into Despair Under Taliban’s Control

    Gallup’s surveys in Afghanistan, conducted in July and August 2022, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the Taliban’s takeover, show life is worse for Afghans than it has been at any point during the past decade -- or for anyone else on the planet.

  • Mapping Anti-Taliban Insurgencies in Afghanistan

    The Afghan Taliban has moved swiftly to consolidate control over Afghanistan and eliminate any opposition to its rule since the August 2021 collapse of the Afghan Republic. The Taliban claim to rule all of Afghanistan for the first time in 40 years. Armed groups opposed to the Taliban remain active in the country, however. Anti-Taliban groups fall into two main categories: Islamic State–aligned groups and non–Salafi-jihadi resistance groups.

  • ‘Operation Pineapple Express’: How volunteers saved Afghans from Taliban

    The withdrawal of the remaining U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan last year ended America’s longest war and ignited a frenzied evacuation as the Taliban reclaimed power. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans – civilians, government officials, members of the security forces – converged on the airport in Kabul in a desperate attempt to flee.

  • Afghanistan adrift one year after the Taliban takeover

    Even prior to Zawahiri’s death, the last few months mostly underscored the Taliban’s global isolation. Relations with the United States and the other Western democracies will remain poor for the foreseeable future. Though China and Russia have accredited diplomats to Kabul, they also have kept their distance and, notably, declined to recognize the Taliban regime as the official government of Afghanistan. I

  • Afghan Women Face Brutal Taliban Crackdown, Amnesty International Report Says

    The report, Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls Under Taliban Rule, comes almost one year after the Taliban’s return to power last August. Since then, conditions for all Afghans have deteriorated, though the treatment of women and girls has been particularly concerning, as the Islamists have appeared determined to expunge them from all social involvement. Women have been sacked from their jobs and banned from secondary school and, effectively, all higher education.

  • Exclusive: US and Taliban make progress on Afghan reserves, but big gaps remain

    Significant differences between the sides remain, however, according to two of the sources, including the Taliban's refusal to replace the bank's top political appointees, one of whom is under U.S. sanctions as are several of the movement's leaders.

  • The Taliban Detained Me for Doing My Job. I Can Never Go Back.

    Foreign ministry spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi, who spent years living in New Zealand, called me a “white supremacist colonialist” and threatened me with violence by reminding me of a 2016 Taliban attack on a local television station after it carried a false report and refused to retract it. “We are proud of that,” Balkhi said. I told him that innocent people had been killed in the suicide attack on a bus taking employees home. “And we are proud of that,” he said. I told him a friend of mine was among the dead. “And we are proud of that,” he repeated.