More women are taking up training and recruiting positions in the Islamic State group and other militant organizations.
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Convergence and competition between militant groups has spurred violence. Meanwhile, Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring terrorists.
Much went right after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. But much also went wrong.
His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?
A scholar of India explores how two 19th-century memoirs portray a land where different religious identities coexist.
Armed groups are challenging the group’s hold on power. Can they present a united front?
The militant Islamist regime has introduced a series of oppressive laws restricting rights for women and girls.
The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international community’s response has fallen so short.
The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international community’s response has fallen so short.
The drop in funding has also led donors to prioritize the trend of using aid to control the movement of people – over their needs.
A history of Afghanistan told through the people who stayed and worked at the Kabul Intercontinental.
By December 2022, all universities in Afghanistan had closed their doors to women.
What’s happening in Afghanistan is not simply gender discrimination; rather, it’s pushing an entire gender out of public systems altogether in a policy of gender apartheid by the ruling Taliban.
The Victoria Cross recipient was arrested at Sydney Airport. He will face court in New South Wales on Tuesday afternoon to be formally charged.
Throughout history, powerful militaries have been thwarted by smaller adversaries with more determination.
In 2024, the Taliban government in Kabul wrote to the Australian government to request the Afghan embassy in Canberra be closed.
The qualities forged by his intense involvement in the struggle for democratic practices shaped his approach to conflict and strife, wherever it occurred.
The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is the latest entry in an old and lethal tradition in international politics: the catastrophic gap between what leaders believe and what war delivers.
Weeks of fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has resulted in hundreds being killed.
In the face of little information, or misinformation, about the war in Iran, media literacy can prove a valuable tool to assess what’s happening on the ground.
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Reader in Sociology, City St George's, University of London
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor, School of History and Philosophy, UNSW
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Visiting Research Professor, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Research Fellow, Initiative for Peacebuilding, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Concordia University
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Non-resident Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
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PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University