Pentagon claims to have found ‘hidden’ files on final days of the Afghanistan war - POLITICO

Republicans have long accused former President Joe Biden's administration of covering up mistakes made in the final days of the conflict...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/26/pentagon-afghanistan-withdrawal-documents-01050485

‘When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage

Afghanistan is seeing a resurgence in underage brides and mothers as desperate families sell their children in order to eat…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/15/afghanistan-girls-sold-into-child-marriage

 

The Taliban’s war on education: ‘Nobody talks about what is happening to the boys’

Five years after the ultra-conservative Islamists retook Afghanistan, students describe male pupils being beaten for minor rule breaches and inexperienced teachers struggling to deliver lessons…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/13/afghanistan-education-taliban-universities-teaching-students-religion-women-islam

 

Pakistan’s patience runs out after badly miscalculating over Taliban

This week it became clear just how badly Pakistan had miscalculated how it could rely on the Taliban, as Islamabad unleashed airstrikes in Afghanistan and troops from both countries fought each other on the border.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/27/pakistan-miscalculation-taliban-afghanistan

 

Pakistan is in 'open war' with Afghanistan, defense minister says : NPR

A Qatari-mediated ceasefire ended the intense fighting in October, but several rounds of peace talks in Turkey in November failed to produce a lasting agreement. The two sides have occasionally traded fire since then...

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/26/g-s1-111783/airstrikes-afghanistan-pakistan-war 

 

Taliban birth control ban: women ‘broken’ by lethal pregnancies and untreated miscarriages

Women across Afghanistan describe the traumatic impact of disappearing clinics and contraception

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/29/afghanistan-taliban-women-birth-control-contraceptive-ban-lethal-pregnancies-miscarriages-violence

 

France honors soldiers who died in Afghanistan after Trump's false claim about NATO troops | PBS News

A senior French government official said Monday the memory of the French soldiers who died in Afghanistan should not be tarnished following U.S. President Donald Trump's false assertion that troops from non-U.S. NATO countries avoided the front line during that war...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/france-honors-soldiers-who-died-in-afghanistan-after-trumps-false-claim-about-nato-troops 

 

Trump prompts outrage with claim Nato troops avoided frontline in Afghanistan

UK MPs and veterans condemn US president's comments and highlight his avoidance of military service in Vietnam…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/donald-trump-outrage-nato-troops-avoided-afghanistan-frontline

 

‘Send your daughters or you get no aid’: the Taliban are making religious schools girls’ only option

'Send your daughters or you get no aid': the Taliban are making religious schools girls' only option.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/22/taliban-afghanistan-women-girls-madrasa-religious-schools-only-option-education

 

Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate | Reuters

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-canceling-flights-nearly-1660-afghan-refugees-say-us-2025-01-20/ 

 

 

FED UP Dems UNLEASH on GOP at Public Hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuDeQNY4BlA

Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails

Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/29/afghanistan-taliban-women-children-arrested-begging-rape-torture-killings-jails-destitution-work-ban

As Taliban starts restricting Afghan men, some regret staying silent - The Washington Post

Beside imposing severe rules on women, new laws require men to grow fist-length beards and bar them from imitating non-Muslims in appearance or behavior...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/22/afghanistan-taliban-restrictions-men-beards/

Opinion | Harris’s role in Afghanistan, Ukraine and other national security hot spots - The Washington Post

They all expressed versions of the same basic theme: Harris behaves like the prosecutor she was for much of her career. She's skeptical, probing, sometimes querulous. She can be impatient and demanding. But she asks good questions. And if she's convinced of the need, she's not afraid to act. "She's more hard-line than most people think," said one retired four-star general who has briefed her many times. 

One top member of her staff put it this way: "She's always the same person, pushing for information, making sure people aren't bulls----ing her." Having watched her often in discussions about using military force, he concluded: "Her approach is to measure twice, cut once. But she's not afraid to take the shot."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/12/harris-commander-predictions-colleagues/

Retired military leaders endorse Harris, criticize Trump

The former military officers highlight the chaotic 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, placing the blame on Trump's shoulders for leaving President Biden and Harris with no plans to execute a withdrawal after his administration made a deal with the Taliban to pull U.S. service members from the country. 

"This chaotic approach severely hindered the Biden-Harris Administration's ability to execute the most orderly withdrawal possible and put our service members and our allies at risk," they write…

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4870286-retired-military-officers-back-harris/

Generals defend Harris on U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan

"Without involving the Afghan government, [Trump] and his Administration negotiated a deal with the Taliban that freed 5,000 Taliban fighters," the retired military officials wrote in a National Security Leaders for America letter first obtained by Axios. 

The group accused Trump of leaving Biden and Harris with no plans to execute a withdrawal and little time to do so. 

"This chaotic approach severely hindered the Biden-Harris Administration's ability to execute the most orderly withdrawal possible and put our service members and our allies at risk," they wrote.

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/09/generals-defend-harris-us-withdrawal-afghanistan

‘Frightening’ Taliban law bans women from speaking in public

"Whenever an adult woman leaves her home out of necessity, she is obliged to conceal her voice, face, and body," the new laws say…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/26/taliban-bar-on-afghan-women-speaking-in-public-un-afghanistan

Trump targets Kamala Harris, Tim Walz with entirely made-up claims

Trump spoke at the National Guard Association's conference and took care to blame Harris for America's withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago, despite the fact that (a) it wasn't Harris' call, (b) Trump's the one who negotiated the withdrawal agreement, and (c) his own White House national security adviser said Trump bears some responsibility for what transpired...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/donald-trump-targets-kamala-harris-tim-walz-claims-election-2024-rcna168458

Hundreds of cases of femicide recorded since Taliban takeover are ‘tip of the iceberg’

The analysis, which is one of the first attempts to try to collect data on the levels of sexual and physical violence against women in Afghanistan, also found 840 women and girls had been subject to gender-based violence from 1 January 2022 – when Afghan Witness began collating data – to 30 June this year, almost one a day. 

More than half of the reported cases said that Taliban officials were responsible. Analysis of crimes allegedly perpetrated by the Taliban revealed 115 incidents of sexual violence, including forced marriage, sexual slavery, assault and rape...

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/15/hundreds-of-cases-of-femicide-recorded-in-afghanistan-since-taliban-takeover-are-tip-of-the-iceberg

Trump SKEWERED For Afghanistan Exit LIES

Trump has spent years blaming Joe Biden for his handling of the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Now, his lies are coming back to haunt him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWtLusJtfAE