# Taliban

US veterans testify of ‘catastrophic’ impact of chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan

The initial hearing displayed the open wounds from the end of America’s longest war in August 2021.

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Mar 9th 2023, 7:29 AM

Last month

February 2023

Top Islamic State commander in Afghanistan killed by the Taliban

The regional IS “intelligence and operations chief” was killed on Sunday night.

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Feb 28th 2023, 8:44 AM

This year

2023

UN calls on Taliban to let women help give aid to desperate Afghans

Afghanistan is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with more than half of its population facing hunger.

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Jan 30th 2023, 10:27 PM

UK's Harry accused of making Invictus Games a terrorist target with new book claims

The UK royal has claimed that he killed 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

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Jan 8th 2023, 5:10 PM

Last year

2022

UN won't halt aid to Afghanistan despite ban on women working in the country's aid sector

‘Aid is never conditional,’ the UN Resident Coordinator in Afghanistan told reporters.

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Dec 29th 2022, 9:42 PM

# Humanitarian Aid

Aid bodies suspend Afghanistan operations after ban on women aid workers

The UN also said that some of its time-critical programmes have had to stop temporarily due to lack of female staff.

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Dec 29th 2022, 11:33 AM

UN urges Taliban to end 'terrible' university ban on women

The Taliban have suspended university education for women and secondary schooling for girls.

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Dec 27th 2022, 1:18 PM

Taliban uses water cannon on women protesting against university ban

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have banned female students from attending universities.

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Dec 24th 2022, 3:01 PM

Taliban bans Afghan women from gyms and public baths

Women are increasingly being squeezed out of public life since the Taliban’s return last year.

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Nov 13th 2022, 12:59 PM

Taliban ban women from parks and funfairs in Afghan capital

‘When you have no freedom in your own country, then what does it mean to live here?’ one woman said.

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Nov 10th 2022, 6:58 AM

THE MORNING LEAD

No Afghan refugees accepted through Admissions Programme due to 'insufficient information'

A report by

Tadgh McNally

The Department of Justice has asked for DNA testing in some instances.

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Oct 27th 2022, 12:05 AM

US engineer and navy veteran freed in Afghanistan as part of Taliban prisioner exchange

Mark Frerichs has been detained in Afghanistan since 2020.

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Sep 19th 2022, 2:48 PM

Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools ‘shameful’, says UN

Teenage girls are still barred from school and women are required to cover themselves from head to toe in public, with only their eyes showing.

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Sep 18th 2022, 12:43 PM

# one year later

‘The most difficult days of my life’: Fleeing Afghanistan for Ireland and starting a new life

Ghazal Maher was a dentist and university lecturer in Afghanistan before the Taliban returned to power.

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Aug 22nd 2022, 6:30 AM

# One Year On

Taliban celebrates 'day of conquest' to mark turbulent first year in power

While the Taliban is celebrating the anniversary, ordinary Afghans are facing increased hardships – especially women.

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Aug 15th 2022, 11:22 AM

Taliban violently disperse rare women's protest in Kabul

About 40 women — chanting “bread, work and freedom” — marched in front of the education ministry building in Kabul.

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Aug 13th 2022, 11:50 AM

Taliban are still illegitimate rulers, say Afghan women activists

Thousands of male clerics have endorsed the hardline government.

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Jul 3rd 2022, 4:00 PM

# Afghanistan earthquake

Taliban pledge no interference with quake aid, but many await relief

Even before Wednesday’s quake, the country was in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.

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Jun 25th 2022, 3:25 PM

Afghan women demand education and work at Kabul protest

Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have rolled back the marginal gains made by women during the two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan.

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May 29th 2022, 1:00 PM

Afghan women TV presenters vow to fight after order to cover faces

This month Afghanistan’s supreme leader issued a diktat for women to cover up fully in public, including their faces.

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May 22nd 2022, 5:59 PM

# order

Female Afghan TV presenters ordered to cover their faces by Taliban

The order came in a statement from the Taliban’s Virtue and Vice Ministry.

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May 19th 2022, 3:56 PM

Taliban orders all Afghan women to wear burqa, as insurgents launch campaign against Govt

Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada also said that if women had no important work outside it was “better they stay at home”.

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May 7th 2022, 5:50 PM

Six people killed in blasts at boys' school in Kabul

At least 11 other people were wounded by two bomb blasts at a boys’ school in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

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Apr 19th 2022, 2:35 PM

Taliban warns Pakistan after rocket attacks kill five Afghan children

The UN said it was “deeply concerned” by the civilian deaths caused by air strikes.

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Apr 16th 2022, 8:05 PM

# Education

Activists promise protests in Afghanistan if Taliban fails to reopen girls' schools

“If the girls’ schools remain closed even after one week, we will open them ourselves.”

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Mar 27th 2022, 2:18 PM

# ACCESS DENIED

Heartbreak as Afghan girls ordered home just hours after schools reopen

The Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on women since returning to power.

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Mar 23rd 2022, 7:31 AM

Taliban announcement a clear sign girls will be allowed to return to school

The international community has appealed to Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to allow girls to return to school.

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Mar 21st 2022, 9:20 PM

# Security Council

UN votes to secure formal presence in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

The resolution, which avoids using the word Taliban, will allow the UN to continue its “crucial” work in Afghanistan.

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Mar 17th 2022, 4:46 PM

Afghan universities reopen for first time after Taliban takeover, but with few women

Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were closed when the Taliban seized power last August.

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Feb 26th 2022, 3:31 PM

WHO meets Taliban to discuss 'dire' health and humanitarian crisis

A Taliban delegation is in Geneva, Switzerland for a week of talks.

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Feb 9th 2022, 7:30 PM

Taliban in Geneva for week of talks as Afghanistan remains in humanitarian crisis

No country has formally recognised the government installed after the Taliban seized power.

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Feb 8th 2022, 7:33 PM

# Refugee Protection

Relocating from Afghanistan: 'People have made us feel at home. I can see where my future is'

Manizha worked as a dentist in Afghanistan prior to the Taliban takeover in August 2021.

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Feb 6th 2022, 7:00 AM

# Explainer

'An economic implosion': Afghanistan's hunger crisis explained

Some 55% of the Afghan population is now suffering from hunger, according to the United Nations.

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Feb 5th 2022, 9:45 AM

# Aghanistan

UN report claims Taliban killed 100 ex-Afghan government officials

The UN report said that, in addition to the political killings, women’s freedoms and the right to protest had also been curbed.

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Jan 31st 2022, 10:58 AM

# charlotte bellis

New Zealand defends strict Covid quarantine as pregnant reporter fights to leave Kabul

Charlotte Bellis said she had to turn to the Taliban for help after her requests to return home were rejected.

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Jan 31st 2022, 10:15 AM

Boris Johnson says suggestion he intervened in animal airlift is ‘total rhubarb’

Boris Johnson has been accused of lying after leaked emails contradicted his stance of denying his involvement.

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Jan 27th 2022, 1:47 PM

All time

# August

Former Afghan president had 'minutes' to decide whether to leave Kabul during Taliban takeover

Ashraf Ghani denied claims his exit scuppered hopes of a deal with the Taliban and also said he had not left with a stolen fortune.

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Dec 30th 2021, 2:43 PM

No long-distance road trips for Afghan women without male escort, Taliban says

The Taliban has also dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions.

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Dec 26th 2021, 7:30 PM

Taliban government resumes issuing Afghan passports in Kabul

The international community has so far not recognised the present Taliban government that was formed soon after the chaotic withdrawal of US-led foreign troops.

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Dec 18th 2021, 2:41 PM