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The Taliban are starting their fifth year of ruling Afghanistan. They have silenced internal dissent, tightened their control ...
The de facto authorities in Afghanistan continued to maintain a permissive environment for a range of terrorist groups,' a ...
Chela Noori, the founder and president of the Afghan Women of France organisation, was recently able to travel across ...
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew after more than two decades of a ...
When DOGE was announced, Cavanaugh was eager to join up, a former co-worker told ProPublica. It’s not clear how he ultimately ...
No matter the timekeeper, it always conveyed the same warning to the Americans: It’s later than you think ...
It's been four years since the Taliban swept back to power in Afghanistan and the worst fears about their return have indeed ...
Kabul’s collapse had been expected, but the speed in which it happened stunned U.S. officials. Taliban fighters marched into the Afghan capital on Sunday seeking surrender of government. The U.S ...
The Taliban so far appears to have stuck with those deals — historically a common feature of Afghan warfare — and the militants seemed far more focused on the 18,000 Army commandos, many of ...
Quraishi grew up in Afghanistan under Soviet and Taliban rule, and began reporting on the Taliban before the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida attacks and the onset of the U.S. Afghan war.
Though Taliban tactics vary from region to region, the outcomes are usually the same: increased taxation on highways, plummeting morale among the Afghan security forces with dwindling U.S. support ...
Since Friday, the Taliban has overrun bastions of government control, snatching more than a quarter of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals on its way to controlling an estimated 65% of the country.