List of Afghanistan articles
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Mahbouba Seraj, a journalist and women's rights activist in Afghanistan. A Nobel Nominee’s Controversial Call for Engagement With the Taliban
Mahbouba Seraj, a rights activist and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, says there’s no choice now but to talk to Afghanistan’s new rulers.
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A mural warns of the dangers of heroin use in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Oct. 17, 2022. Lindsey Kennedy for Foreign Policy How the Taliban’s ‘War on Drugs’ Could Backfire
The purported ban on opium and ephedra devastates poor farmers, enriches the Taliban, and has done nothing to curb addiction.
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Afghan laborers push a wheelbarrow loaded with food aid at a gymnasium in Kabul. To Help Afghanistan, Engage Its Political Opposition
The Taliban’s rule isn’t inevitable or forever.
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A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait in a queue during a World Food Program cash distribution in Kabul. Taliban ‘Men-Only’ Aid Edict Divides Charity Community
The World Food Program seems poised to carry on, driving NGOs to call it quits on aid.
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Afghan boys stand in a queue as they wait to receive food aid from a nongovernmental organization in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban Are Losing Some of Their Cash Cows
The U.S. and U.N. are halting aid as the Taliban ratchet up their atrocities.
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Volunteers label a shipment of humanitarian aid to be sent to Afghanistan at Bahrain International Airport on Muharraq Island on Sept. 4, 2021. The Taliban Are Abusing Western Aid
Misogyny gets headlines. The pillaging of international aid money goes unnoticed.
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Refugees disembark from a U.S. Air Force aircraft after an evacuation flight from Kabul at the Rota naval base in Rota, Spain. Bill That Would Provide Lifeline to Afghan Refugees Blocked in Congress
The Afghan Adjustment Act didn’t make it into the final major spending bill, leaving refugees in limbo.
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Taliban security personnel stands guard at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The Taliban Can’t Win Friends or Influence People
Fights with neighbors, terrorism attacks on the group’s few patrons, and concerns over Taliban defections darken Afghanistan’s future.
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Fiona Frazer speaks next to Markus Potzel in Kabul. U.N. Calls Ambassadors for Meeting With Taliban in Kandahar
It’s not recognition yet—just resignation.
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Afghan money changers calculate at the currency exchange Sarayee Shahzada market in Kabul on June 29, 2015. Don’t Release Foreign Reserves to the Taliban
Unfreezing billions of dollars while huge revenues flow to Kabul risks legitimizing an extremist regime.
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A man sits behind a glass case full of colorful bills. How Afghanistan’s Money Exchangers Have Worked Around the Taliban
They are, increasingly, the only financial link that connects the country to the rest of the world.
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A plane flies above buildings and a hillside. How It All Fell Apart in Afghanistan
The top U.S. watchdog for the conflict has a new theory.
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Taliban soldiers stand guard as men imprisoned for using drugs sit in a courtyard prior to being released from Kandahar Central Jail. Despite ‘Ban’ on Opium, Afghanistan’s Poppy Crop Is Growing
More drugs and higher prices a year after the Taliban takeover.
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Afghan National Army soldiers train. Russia’s Recruiting Afghan Commandos
Abandoned special forces veterans are getting job offers for a very different kind of battlefield.
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Armed Chinese police stand guard at Tiananmen Square. Afghan Militants Have China in Their Crosshairs
New Islamic State rhetoric targets Chinese imperialism.