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Taliban

May 2024

  • Zahra Joya poses for portrait on a bench in Elthorne Park, London.

    World Press Freedom Day 2024
    ‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women

  • The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. In this unique video diary, journalist Abbas Rezaie follows the tenacious correspondents as they continue to report the news. We witness a turning point in Afghanistan’s history, and reflect on what it is to be a displaced journalist

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    The Guardian documentary
    Can journalism survive the Taliban? – documentary

  • Guardian Documentary, 'House No.30, Kabul' featuring Zaki Daryabi, the founder of the Afghan newspaper, The Etilaat Roz

    The Guardian documentary
    Can journalism survive the Taliban?

  • House No 30, Kabul

    World Press Freedom Day 2024
    The Taliban targeted us, beat us and chased us out. This is how we run our Afghan newspaper from exile

    Sakhidad Hatif

April 2024

  • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

    Rights and freedom
    Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

  • Women and young children pull luggage as they queue to board a plane

    Delays by Home Office risk return of vulnerable Afghan families to Taliban

March 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    The Week in Patriarchy
    Trump selling Bibles may be desperation – but that shouldn’t cheer anyone up

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • A protester raises her fist during a demonstration against violence against women

    The Guardian view on global women’s rights: Saudi Arabia isn’t the only problem

  • Afghan burqa-clad women walk along a road in Kandahar

    Rights and freedom
    Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

  • people look out at a mountain range

    They fled Afghanistan after Biden’s withdrawal. Now in the US, they hope Trump wins

  • Biden administration failures drove the fall of Kabul, say top former US generals

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘They can’t grieve’: families in limbo as Channel boat victims left unidentified

February 2024

  • Afghan special forces patrol during an operation against Taliban militants in October 2019, in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

    UK special forces blocked resettlement applications from elite Afghan troops

    MoD conducts review but stands accused of conflict of interest while public inquiry investigates conduct of SAS in Afghanistan

January 2024

  • A composite photo of eight world leaders

    Rights and freedom
    Human rights in decline globally as leaders fail to uphold laws, report warns

  • A poster ordering women to cover themselves with a hijab is pictured at a private university.

    Rights and freedom
    Afghan girls detained and lashed by Taliban for violating hijab rules

December 2023

  • From left: Elaha Safdari, Najma Arifi and Narges Mayeli. Safdari: ‘We are safe, but my parents are not.’

    Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2023
    ‘I need mum and dad here’: the charity helping young Afghan footballers reunite with relatives

    The Refugee Council is welcoming those who fled the Taliban and providing legal advice on resettlement in the UK• Donate to our charity appeal here
  • Two rows of young boys sit on the floor reading

    Taliban causing ‘irreversible damage’ to whole education system in Afghanistan

    Human Rights Watch warns bar on women means unqualified men now teach boys, fewer subjects are taught and beatings are routine
  • Burqa-clad women wait to cross the Afghanistan-Pakistan land border at Torkham, Pakistan, in September.

    Afghanistan: the left behind
    Heavily pregnant Afghan women eligible to come to UK stuck in Pakistan

    People who worked for or were affiliated with the British Council may lose babies as government delays relocation to UK

November 2023

  • A group of school girls raise their hands with school books on their laps

    Rights and freedom
    Taliban could be convinced to open girls’ schools, says Afghanistan ex-education minister

  • A manager and a Taliban government official in the dining room of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. Photograph: Elise Blanchard/Elise Blanchard for NZZ

    The Audio Long Read
    Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel – podcast

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