(THE CONVERSATION) The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban left many surprised. To Ali Olomi, a historian of the Middle East and Islam at Penn State University, a key to understanding what is ...

This article was written by Elina Qalam for Hasht-e Subh Daily and published on October 29, 2025. An edited version of the article is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement.

Denying Afghanistan’s girls their rights is the basis on which the Taliban is building a future generation of fighters. The false distinction between promoting human rights and fighting terrorism has ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on July 8 that it had issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity and gender-based persecution following ...

Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi groups since taking power in Afghanistan, new research shows. Relationships are ...

The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...

The Taliban regime's interim minister for industry and commerce, Nooruddin Azizi, has landed in New Delhi for trade talks, marking the second high-level visit by Taliban officials to India within a ...

Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistani military as hostilities between the two countries intensify. By Mujib Mashal Mujib Mashal, who reported from the Deoband ...

The Taliban has launched a crackdown on private children’s homes that provide shelter, education, and care to thousands across Afghanistan. The hard-line Islamist group has forcibly shut down several ...

The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...