Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 17 August 2021. Photo: EPA
26 November 2022
Taliban restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls could amount to a crime against...
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25 November 2022
Swathes of Afghanistan are littered with unexploded mines, grenades and mortars spanning...
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02 November 2022
Many Afghan schoolgirls are resorting to working in the country's saffron fields in the...
A general view of the Myanmar Parliament complex in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
02 March 2022
Afghanistan and Myanmar are going to vote for a United Nations General Assembly...
Security personnel stand guard along a street in Srinagar on October 15, 2021, following the killing of two army personnel in an encounter with suspected militants in Poonch district, local media reported. TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP
19 October 2021
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out his Taliban worries to world leaders this week,...
An aerial view shows the city engulfed in heavy smog in New Delhi, India, 17 March 2021. Photo: EPA
12 October 2021
Since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the world’s attention, and that of India, have...
Taliban members stand next to people rushing to pass to Pakistan from the Afghanistan border in Spin Boldak on September 25, 2021. BULENT KILIC / AFP
26 September 2021
The five permanent UN Security Council members found common ground last week on...
A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty saloon with images of women defaced using a spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on August 18, 2021. Photo: Wakil Kohsar/AFP
19 September 2021
Having conquered Afghanistan, the Taliban now face the formidable task of keeping the...
 Members of the Taliban drive in the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul on September 16, 2021. Photo: AFP
18 September 2021
Russia and China's leaders on Friday urged the new Taliban government in Afghanistan to...
A Taliban fighter stands guard as Afghan women shout slogans during an anti-Pakistan protest rally, near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul on September 7, 2021. Photo: AFP
11 September 2021
The UN on Friday condemned the Taliban's increasingly violent response to peaceful...
Taliban militants in a line holding guns and explosives. Photo: AFP
04 September 2021
The Taliban are due to form a government within days despite fighting in Afghanistan's...
Afghan refugees board a bus after arriving at Dulles International Airport on August 27, 2021 in Dulles, Virginia after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Photo: AFP
28 August 2021
The Taliban has joined global leaders and NATO in condemning twin suicide bombs that...

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