Segregation and other measures being introduced by the Taliban’s hardline new government are being greeted with widespread protests, many of them led by women.
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With the Taliban again in power in Afghanistan, minorities like the Hazara may have the most to lose.
The Taliban have at least five significant potential sources of revenue as they begin to govern Afghanistan again.
There are many reasons to be wary of the returned Taliban, but given our investment in the region the Australian government will have to find a way to deal with it.
The caretaker leader for Afghanistan represents a compromise candidate for Taliban factions, but his reactionary past has drawn concern over the fate of minority and women’s rights.
Afghanistan remains deeply divided, with a number of warlords who could make it hard for the Taliban to control the country.
The regime knows it must adapt to the modern world – but its ideology remains the same.
As Friday’s attack by an ISIS sympathiser in a New Zealand supermarket shows, ISIS’s extreme ideology still holds strong appeal for some disaffected Muslims living in the west.
A second plot was planned on 9/11, but there were too few terrorists to carry it off. Twenty years later, al-Qaida and its offshoot the Islamic State group still have trouble attracting recruits.
The most important lesson from the US withdrawal from Afghanistan may be our failure to learn from history.
As the Taliban, warlords and corrupt public officials vie for drug profits and power, it will fuel even more instability in the country.
Everyone has the right to have a country to seek asylum, but it will need international cooperation to get the Taliban to honour this right.
Joe Biden had long thought that the US engagement in Afghanistan was a mistake.
Various armed groups operating in Afghanistan will contest Taliban hegemony.
The potential failure of the US military to protect information that can identify Afghan citizens raises questions about whether and how biometric data should be collected in war zones.
Indonesia, as well as many other countries that will see an increase in Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, will be put to a test of humanity and will have to act quickly.
An ‘orderly departure program’ similar to the one set up after the Vietnam War could offer a vital pathway out of Afghanistan for refugees over the next several years.
Researchers have interviewed hundreds of Afghan women about violence and mental health.
An attack on the Kabul airport has left scores dead and many more injured. Two terrorism scholars explain who the group thought responsible is, and how big of a threat is it.
The Taliban has promised an ‘inclusive’ new government. But early signs aren’t promising.
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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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Director, La Trobe University
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Researcher and sessional academic, Australian Catholic University
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