Taliban

The documentary offers an unrivalled glimpse into the heart of the Taliban’s Afghanistan, and into the truth that the West has failed to grasp about America’s longest war.

The Afghan statesman Zalmai Rassoul is recognized by the governments of the United Kingdom and Ireland—but not by the Taliban.

Following an assassination attempt, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister discusses his views on the Taliban, his relationship with the military, and why he’s more “evolved” than other people.

Tyrants and thugocrats have tightened their hold amid challenges to democracies, but they face problems, too.

The Biden Administration has agreed to release $3.5 billion in frozen funds, but will they reach a desperate population?

A year after the last U.S. military flights left, some Afghans who are vulnerable to retribution from the Taliban are being resettled in the U.S. But others are stuck in third-party countries, and many remain trapped in Afghanistan, at great risk.

For the Biden Administration, supporting the Afghan people without empowering the Taliban is the foreign-policy case study from hell.

A year after its withdrawal, the United States must choose between humanitarian concerns in Afghanistan and legitimatizing the country’s religious dictatorship.

After the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, a U.S. organization shut down the country’s largest network of women’s shelters. Its founders think that it made a huge mistake. 

What does the stark evidence of the renewed relationship between Al Qaeda and Afghanistan’s leaders suggest?

After Trump eviscerated the refugee-resettlement system, the government was unprepared for Afghans displaced by their country’s collapse. A new program lets civilians step up to help.

Senator Tammy Duckworth called for the Biden Administration to free an Afghan drug trafficker in exchange for the release of the American engineer Mark Frerichs, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan.

They fought for decades to retake Afghanistan, but promises of a new start are already colliding with internal divisions and external opposition.

Four months after the Biden Administration withdrew U.S. troops, more than twenty million Afghans are on the brink of famine.

The U.S. promised protection to the locals it relied on during the war. When it withdrew, it abandoned thousands to the Taliban.

A trove of unreleased documents reveals a dispiriting record of misjudgment, hubris, and delusion that led to the fall of the Western-backed government.

To the Taliban, educating girls is a crime to be brutally suppressed. The head of a Kabul girls’ school describes how the whole school evacuated as the group came back to power.

The chaotic American withdrawal forced individual soldiers, aid workers, and journalists to decide which Afghans would be saved.

If the Administration fails to help stabilize the beleaguered country, a withdrawal that appeared politically deft could prove damaging.

For women in the Middle East and beyond, the U.S. has been an unconvincing liberator.