カテゴリー: Taliban
Many prisoners released under the US-Taliban deal took up arms again and then overran KabulGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastMany of the Taliban freed under the Doha Agreement took up arms, providing a deadly illustrati…
It’s been a year since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. The photojournalist Stefanie Glinski has been in the country since then, charting the rise of the Islamic emirate and the effect on the populationSitting on a thin mat, a plastic tarpaulin…
These are the stories of interpreters, embassy staff, guards and aid workers still trying to get to Australia a year after the fall of KabulGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastAfghan nationals who worked for the Australia…
One year since the Taliban regained power, charities say urgent action needed to address economic crisisOne year on from the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, a group of 32 Afghan and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are urging the …
Last August, one Afghan reporter told how her life imploded when the militants took power. One year on, she tells of desperate months trying to evade capture and flee the countryThe day the Taliban entered my city last August, I started to receive rene…
The Afghan rulers’ ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from withinThe Taliban official’s wife apologised for keeping her visit brief. She needed to get her teenage girls ready to fly to Doha, the Qatari cap…
Students, mothers, widows, workers and artists explain how their world has altered under ‘gender apartheid’One year ago, the Taliban swept through Afghanistan, taking control of the country amid the chaos of the US and UK troop withdrawal.Now women’s l…
A year after the fall of Kabul, Abdullah Sayyid is in hiding, his wife has been murdered and the Home Office seems to have lost his case fileAbdullah Sayyid often thinks about the moment the Taliban broke down his door, burst inside and shot his wife. …
Shots fired into air and rifle butts used to attack dozens of women protesting outside Afghan education ministryTaliban fighters beat female protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, d…
Since returning to power the Taliban have banned secondary school-aged girls from getting an education. Here Farzana*, 16, tells her storyLast year I was in 11th grade, the second highest-placed student in my class, with an average grade of 95%. Now I …
The withdrawal of allied troops from Afghanistan a year ago led to desperate scenes as refugees tried to escape the Taliban. One man tells his family’s story Continue reading…
One year after the fall of Kabul, the people face both intensifying repression and mass hungerOn Monday it will be a year since the Taliban seized Kabul, marking “not the collapse of a regime, but the collapse of the dreams of a nation”, in the words o…
Taliban in Kabul investigating death of prominent figure they describe as a ‘huge loss’A prominent Taliban cleric, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, was killed in an attack in a seminary in Kabul when the attacker detonated explosives hidden in a plastic arti…
Exclusive: Father of one of three soldiers slain by Hekmatullah says Australia was ‘sidelined’ in deal between US and Taliban to release terrorist from prisonGet Guardian Australia’s free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastThe fam…
Hekmatullah, who killed three Australian soldiers, is living in a heavily protected luxury Kabul home after being freed from prisonGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastHekmatullah, the rogue Afghan soldier who killed three…