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

 

MAGA are the Taliban #duet #christiannationalism #religion #extremism

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CBXqoK693bM

 

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

 

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

 

‘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

 

Don Bacon says Donald Trump repeating Taliban mistake in Ukraine talks

"We've seen a history of this. I remember when the Trump administration was negotiating with the Taliban without the Afghan government. That really weakened the Afghan government thereafter," he added...

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5186439-trump-mistake-ukraine-russia/

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/

‘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

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

Opinion | Taliban's ban on women in university is a massive blow - The Washington Post

The latest shot came on Tuesday, when the Taliban decreed that women are now barred from attending universities in Afghanistan, effective immediately and indefinitely. It's a project that began in March, when it banned girls from attending school past sixth grade yet kept universities open…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/21/afghanistan-taliban-women-university-ban/

Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia law

Afghanistan's supreme leader has ordered judges to fully implement aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amputation of limbs for thieves, the Taliban's chief spokesman said...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/14/afghanistan-supreme-leader-orders-full-implementation-of-sharia-law-taliban

The Bloody Uprising Against the Taliban Led by One of Their Own - The New York Times

"The Taliban must recognize Shiite and Hazara, and participate in the system," said Mohammad Jawid, 27, who joined Mahdi's militia this spring. "Otherwise we are here and we will fight for our rights."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/world/asia/afghanistan-uprising-taliban-mahdi.html

The U.S. deal with the Taliban destroyed Afghans' military morale, a new report says : NPR

Morale across Afghanistan's military ranks was "destroyed" when then-President Trump reached a deal with the Taliban in 2020 and President Biden affirmed the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, according to a new report on the calamitous fall of the Afghan government...

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/18/1099688825/sigar-afghanistan-forces-collapse

Twitter Spaces is being used by the Taliban and white nationalists. - The Washington Post

Employees who complained about the lack of moderation say they were sidelined…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/10/twitter-turmoil-spaces/

Biden administration delivers brusque message to Pakistan

…There is a fear among western countries and diplomats that Pakistan may recognise the Taliban new government and undermine international efforts to pressure the Taliban into making assurances about human rights, security and the freedoms of women. A report published in Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, quoting the US sources, reported that the United States does not want Pakistan to recognise the Taliban regime before the rest of the international community...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/biden-administration-delivers-brusque-message-to-pakistan

Inside the CIA’s secret Kabul base, burned out and abandoned in haste

A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured prisoners…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/inside-the-cias-secret-kabul-base-burned-out-and-abandoned-in-haste

We now know why Biden was in a hurry to exit Afghanistan.

He made several missteps, but on the big picture, he was right...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/biden-afghanistan-exit-troops-milley.html

‘We don’t want people to be in a panic,’ says chief of Taliban morality police

…He ruled out, at least for now, the much feared patrols of the last Taliban rule. "There won't be any patrols … we want to emphasise we will not be entering people's homes, or places they have their gatherings and we will not use violence."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/persuasion-first-violence-later-the-talibans-new-vice-and-virtue-approach

The U.S. far right has a curious affinity for the Taliban - The Washington Post

…CNN obtained the details of a recent call between John Cohen, the head of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and local and state law enforcement. In the call, Cohen said his agency, in its monitoring of far-right groups, had seen both an uptick in invocations of the "great replacement" — a white-supremacist conspiracy theory that liberals are "importing" foreigners to undermine the country's white majority — and praise for the Taliban's success from those who call for a new civil war within the United States…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/03/far-right-america-taliban/