Two Afghan children collect recyclable material from a garbage dump in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 8, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File Advertisement It has been two years since the Taliban regained control in Afghanistan. During this time, Afghans have been pushed further and further off the radar of the rest of the world – … Read more
Advertisement Over the past two years, Afghanistan has experienced drastic changes, marked by the collapse of the republican system. The re-emergence of the Taliban has caused massive disruptions in people’s lives, leading to the abandonment of homes and jobs by many. The Taliban’s repressive rule has forced the closure of educational institutions, largely confined women … Read more
Advertisement After two decades of war in Afghanistan, and the immeasurable sacrifices of the nation’s soldiers, law enforcement, and public officials, Kabul is once again under the rule of the Taliban. The consequences of the militant group’s takeover have been described at great length elsewhere: schools have been closed, music banned, women subjected to extraordinary … Read more
Advertisement “… [I]t is no longer a question of whether the Taliban are diverting assistance from our programs to help the Afghan people, but rather how much they are diverting,” writes the U.S. Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John F. Sopko in the introduction to its 60th quarterly report, published this week. The report … Read more
Advertisement The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 proved fatal for the the Western-backed government in Kabul. The Taliban returned to power swiftly and now, nearly two years later, remain in control of Afghanistan. In his recent book, “The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left,” Hassan Abbas dives deeply into the … Read more
TheStarsHub — Beauty salons in Afghanistan have been given one month to close as the country’s Taliban leaders extend their repressive rule over women, who are already largely confined to their homes with bans on most work and study. Mohammad Sidik Akif Mahajar, a spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention … Read more
Taliban personnel eradicate a poppy field in Washir district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq Advertisement According to multiple media reports, Taliban anti-narcotics units have managed to effect a drastic reduction in opium cultivation in Afghanistan. Assisted by armed Taliban soldiers, stick-wielding personnel are hopping from one opium-growing field … Read more
TheStarsHub — The Taliban should be investigated for crimes against humanity over their brutal crackdown on the rights and freedoms of women in Afghanistan, two leading human rights organizations have urged. Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said the group’s treatment of women and girls meets the criteria for gender persecution, which … Read more
Advertisement Afghanistan was at the center of global attention for two decades, but now it is left only to the Afghan people, both within the country and among the diaspora, to find solutions to their problems and the country’s many crises. But in the nearly two years since the Taliban re-established their rule over Afghanistan, … Read more
TheStarsHub — Qasim received a call in late March that his brother, an employee with Afghanistan’s Taliban government, had been seriously injured in a suicide bombing near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul. The 32-year-old rushed to the hospital with his family, but when they got there he was told by the doctors his … Read more