Taliban, Afghanistan
Taliban cracking down on stricter laws for Afghan women
Three years after seizing power, the Taliban is cracking down on women’s rights. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, some hoped that its new rule would be much less extreme than the first time around,
Taliban begin enforcing new draconian laws, and Afghan women despair
As the Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, Afghan women say that whatever hopes they once harbored for an easing of the severe restrictions on them have largely vanished.
The Taliban’s repression of women in Afghanistan is outrageous, the UN rights chief says
The U.N. rights chief says the Taliban’s repressive control over women and girls is unparalleled and will jeopardize Afghanistan's future.
Opinion
The Taliban has silenced Afghanistan’s women – and the world watched it happen
Like everyone else, I have watched in utter despair the videos of the women of Afghanistan singing in the shrouds they are forced to wear. They are singing in defiance of an ever-more zealous set of restrictions that the Taliban have decreed.
Afghan women endure draconian Taliban, 23 years after 9/11
The plight of Afghanistan’s women in 2024 provides a grim coda to the saga of the U.S.’s role in the country since 2001. It’s a tale of tragedy and hubris, misadventures and corruption, and — in the final,
Taliban defends new law that curbs women's freedoms
A Taliban government spokesman says the edict is in accordance with Islamic Sharia law.
Opinion
What the ‘Willful Blindness’ report misses about Afghanistan’s tragedy
The hard truth is, no matter how it was spun, Afghanistan was lost well before the planes left the runway at Bagram Airfield.
Taliban Wants To Build Afghanistan’s Air Defenses With Russia’s Help
Amidst warming ties between its regime and Russia, the Taliban have expressed its intent to build Afghanistan’s air defenses ...
Harris campaign hits Trump on 2020 Taliban deal in response to his criticism of Afghanistan withdrawal
In a statement, the Harris campaign says Trump's Taliban deal "set a virtually impossible deadline" for the withdrawal of U.S ...
Democrat says Trump ‘out-negotiated’ by Taliban on Afghanistan
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) said former President Trump was “out-negotiated” by the Taliban when he struck a deal to ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation4d
The Taliban will go to any lengths to silence Afghan women — but we will have our voices heard
The Taliban’s history of oppressing women is well-documented, and their recent actions are the latest chapter in a long and tragic story. When they first took control of Afghanistan in between ...
Harris hits out at Trump’s Taliban deal as Republicans release damning report on Biden Afghanistan withdrawal
Harris’s campaign says Trump ‘cut a bad deal’ with the Taliban in 2020, when the former president agreed the US would ...
Afghanistan's London embassy to close after its diplomats were disowned by the Taliban
Britain says Afghanistan's embassy in London is shutting down after it was disowned by the country's Taliban rulers.
The Washington Post3d
Afghan women defy Taliban and continue medical school in Scotland
She didn’t give up months later, when the Taliban took over Afghanistan, nor when the regime banned female students from attending universities in late 2022, months before she was set to ...
El País in English1d
The crime of being a woman in Afghanistan: ‘A Taliban can knock on your door at night, rape you, take you away and marry you’
The fundamentalists’ latest edict, which prohibits women’s voices from being heard in public, consolidates a gender apartheid ...