Posts Tagged: Taliban
Taliban Warns Against Dissent, Women’s Rights Activism
i24 News – Afghanistan's new Taliban authorities warned Saturday they have the right to crack down on dissent and jail protesters, as concerns grew over...
Facebook Threatens to Ban Head of UN Watchdog for Post Critical of Taliban, BDS Movement
Facebook has threatened to ban the head of the watchdog group UN Watch due to alleged content violations, including a post denouncing the Taliban and...
Winter Presents New, Dire Challenges for Afghanistan’s Women
A harsh winter has descended upon Afghanistan. Everyone who is still there is now trapped, in hiding, and cold. Very cold. One woman asked us for...
Erdogan Fosters Anti-Western, Anti-Israel, and Jihadist Sentiment in Turkey
The November 1 assault on an American sailor by Turkish nationalists reflects the anti-Western sentiment prevailing in Turkey, fostered by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. During a...
Taliban Close in as Desperate Afghan Women Await Rescue
In Bamiyan province, through which the Silk Road once flourished and the towering statues of Buddha once stood, an Afghan woman's naked body has just...
Taliban Begin Paying Salaries to Government Employees
i24 News –Afghanistan's Taliban authorities said Saturday they had begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and...
Why the World Is Engaging with the Taliban
The Taliban and Pakistan, both viewed warily by the West and others in the international community, appear to be benefiting from mounting concerns about the...
UN: World Should Send Pledged Aid to Afghans to Avert Economic, Refugee Crisis
The world should urgently provide promised aid to Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency said on Saturday, warning that a lack of resources is hampering efforts...
Think Afghanistan Is a Problem? Look at Pakistan
Societal struggles and reforms often take unexpected turns in vast swaths of land stretching from the Middle East into Central Asia. Take education for example. The Taliban...
Afghan Girls Stuck at Home, Waiting for Taliban Plan to Reopen Schools
As the weeks pass in Afghanistan, the new Taliban administration has yet to announce when it will reopen secondary schools for girls, leaving them stuck...
Afghan Pavilion at Dubai World Fair Stays Shut After Taliban Takeover
Hours after the world expo fair opened in Dubai on Friday, Afghanistan's exhibition remained closed to visitors in a sign of the challenges facing the...
Continuing to Try to Save Afghan Women Is ‘the Only Thing We Can Do’
We now know that the stubborn, almost incomprehensible way in which President Biden pulled out of Afghanistan was against military advice; that it led to...
We Must Investigate America’s Longest War
According to official estimates, the US expended a staggering $982 billion on the Afghanistan war effort. However, the Costs of War Project at Brown University assesses...
Taliban Hang Up Bodies of Alleged Kidnappers in Afghan City
Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local...
