Hollywoodgate review – chilling fly-on-the-wall glimpse of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul
Granted unprecedented, if strictly limited access, Egyptian documentarian Ibrahim Nash’at captures the Taliban’s inner circle after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
I live under the oppressive rule of the Taliban. That’s why I am urging the world to engage with them
Anonymous
People who have fled Afghanistan encourage the world to sever ties with the Taliban. That only harms those of us still here, says an anonymous female aid worker
Rights and freedom
Hundreds of cases of femicide recorded in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover are ‘tip of the iceberg’
Book of the day
My Dear Kabul review – inspirational resilience in an Afghan women’s writing group
Rights and freedom
‘They can stone us and flog us – I will keep using makeup’: why women risk everything in Afghanistan’s secret salons
July 2024
Documentary-maker Ibrahim Nash’at on filming the Taliban: ‘The secret service asked to see my footage. I left the same day’
Embedded with the Taliban after US forces fled Kabul, Nash’at’s fly-on-the-wall documentary, Hollywoodgate, offers a darkly comic, damning insight into the regime
‘The Taliban tried to silence us’: the musicians who escaped to Portugal
With music now a crime in Afghanistan, Braga has become one of the few places where the practice is being preserved
UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief
‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran
Rights and freedom
Video appears to show gang-rape of Afghan woman in a Taliban jail
June 2024
Rights and freedom
Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most
Fawzia Koofi
Rights and freedom
Afghan girls accuse Taliban of sexual assault after arrests for ‘bad hijab’
Rights and freedom
Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’
Rights and freedom
‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline
Rights and freedom
‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school
UN condemns Taliban after it publicly flogs at least 60 people
Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next
May 2024
‘It is worse now’: The Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad on returning to Afghanistan 20 years on
The Norwegian writer on meeting the Taliban, her fears for girls’ education, and the legal battle that ensued after the publication of her bestselling book
Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly tourist attack in Afghanistan
Taliban says four arrested over attack at Bamiyan heritage site that killed three Spanish visitors and an Afghan
Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan shot dead in Afghanistan attack
Four suspects arrested at the scene of attack in Bamiyan, as local hospital says other tourists wounded were in a stable condition
