Much went right after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. But much also went wrong.
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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.
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.
Throughout history, powerful militaries have been thwarted by smaller adversaries with more determination.
The Pakistani strike on a drug addiction hospital raises serious concerns about the enforcement of international humanitarian law.
TTP militants in Pakistan have declared themselves part of the Talibans’s emirate in Afghanistan.
In 2024, the Taliban government in Kabul wrote to the Australian government to request the Afghan embassy in Canberra be closed.
Weeks of fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has resulted in hundreds being killed.
Silence would mean accepting and surrendering to the Taliban’s power, writes one of these authors. Theirs are the voices of resistance.
After a failed US intervention exposed Afghan civilians to Taliban threats, Washington is retreating from its humanitarian obligations.
Four young Afghan men were given a Taliban warning for walking the streets dressed as Thomas Shelby from the TV hit show Peaky Blinders.
Pakistan cannot blame anyone but itself for the challenges it now faces: it nurtured and supported the Afghan Taliban for decades.
Afghans who have lost US work permits and protections from deportation fear persecution by the Taliban if they return to Afghanistan.
Russia and China have started to bring the Taliban in from the cold. The international community may soon have little leverage to pressure the group to change.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Taliban leaders it holds criminally responsible for the persecution of Afghan women and girls.
The deal that Trump left for his successor Joe Biden was a recipe for the disaster that followed.
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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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Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor of International Relations and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University
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PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University
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Non-resident Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University
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Researcher and sessional academic, Australian Catholic University
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