Last week, as the Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid triumphantly declared 2025 “a year of diplomatic success,” the claim was received with predictable laud from the movement’s echo chambers. But ...

This article was written by Elina Qalam for Hasht-e Subh Daily and published on October 29, 2025. An edited version of the article is published on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said on July 8 that it had issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity and gender-based persecution following ...

Taliban leaders have chosen to maintain a delicate balancing act in their relationships with other local violent jihadi groups since taking power in Afghanistan, new research shows. Relationships are ...

The Taliban regime's interim minister for industry and commerce, Nooruddin Azizi, has landed in New Delhi for trade talks, marking the second high-level visit by Taliban officials to India within a ...

The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...

Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistani military as hostilities between the two countries intensify. By Mujib Mashal Mujib Mashal, who reported from the Deoband ...

A UN expert on Sunday called for the reversal of the ban on women staff entering UN premises in Afghanistan, condemning the Taliban measures as a violation of UN principles of equality and human ...

Goodbye New START: How China’s Rise Ended Nuclear Arms Control Among Afghans, there is a saying: “A woman can only be defeated by a woman.” In today’s Afghanistan, this expression takes on a painfully ...

The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 for the second time. Since then, the former insurgents have consolidated their grip on power, excluded women and girls from public life, stamped out ...