March 28, 2024
Don’t Betray the Women of Afghanistan
Normalizing Relations With the Taliban Normalizes Female Suffering
Taliban
Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of the Taliban, the extremist Islamist group currently ruling Afghanistan after returning to power in 2021, including the rise of the movement in the 1990s, the history of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and the Taliban insurgency, the group’s ideology and record on human and women’s rights, and the movement’s influence on regional politics.
Top Stories
March 14, 2024
America Can’t Isolate the Taliban
Why Regional Powers Are Reopening Ties With Afghanistan
Asfandyar Mir and Andrew Watkins
January 9, 2024
Pakistan Finds a New Scapegoat
How Islamabad’s Expulsions of Afghans Could Backfire—and Help the Taliban
Aqil Shah
August 31, 2023
Don’t Work With the Taliban
Work Around Them, Instead
Roya Rahmani
August 11, 2023
The World Has No Choice But to Work With the Taliban
How to Help Afghanistan Without Normalizing Relations
Graeme Smith and Ibraheem Bahiss
August 18, 2023
Don’t Recognize the Taliban Government
Deepening Ties Won’t Moderate Afghanistan’s Brutal Rulers
P. Michael McKinley
