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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Since 2021, the Taliban has encouraged madrasa schools, raising concerns about religious indoctrination and the spread of extremism in Afghanistan. The madrasa-based education system has a long and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is this the last time you’ll hear from me? It could be, as the Taliban’s crackdown on all of our rights has extended to internet technology. A ban on fiber optic internet has begun its slow trickle ...

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 ...

Among Afghans, there is a saying: “A woman can only be defeated by a woman.” In today’s Afghanistan, this expression takes on a painfully literal meaning. With women and girls barred from schools, ...

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 ...