Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: May 2026

What Affordable Means in Today’s Afghanistan: Choosing what to give up and what to hold on to

Jawed Neshat • Roxanna Shapour •

What happens when a family that once enjoyed a comfortable life can no longer afford the things it once took for granted? This is the situation for many Afghan households still struggling in the wake of the economic collapse of 2021 and 2022 when many lost their jobs and yet prices continue to rise and […]

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مصاحبه با کارشناس افغانستان در آلمان: روند اخراج افغان ها به کجا می انجامد؟  [Where is the process of deportation of Afghans leading?]

Info Migrants, 29 May 2026 Interview by the migration news platform with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about Germany’s controversial deportations to Afghanistan, based on an agreement with the Taleban regime (in Dari/Persian).

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Taliban ante portas in Brüssel: Afghanisches Regime wird hoffähig

Tageszeitung, 27 May 2026 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig summarises how the EU is edging toward a deportation deal with the Taleban regime, both emulating and being pushed by the German government who concluded one bilaterally earlier this year, without publishing its contents. The latest EU developments: first, Brussel admitted that it is planning to invite a […]

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Here Is What Justice Looked Like [in Afghanistan] — and What Destroyed It

Just Security, 27 May 2026 Mohammad Farid Hamidi, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s Attorney General, takes a passionate look at what the justice system looked like then, particularly for women, and on how the Taleban dismantled it in the name of sharia. He makes a plea for support of his former colleagues, more than 3,800 […]

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Can Afghanistan Feed Itself? Agriculture, trade and food security under pressure

Mhd Assem Mayar •

Afghanistan’s food system is under growing strain. Domestic harvests remain insufficient and uneven and trade routes have shifted repeatedly in recent years. This spring’s rainfall has been good enough for a forecast of a bumper wheat crop, but that belies the ruinous longer-term reality of the climate crisis and the more frequent droughts it is […]

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Das Bamf und seine Afghanistan-Politik: Klaffende Realitätslücke

Tageszeitung, 22 May 2026 In an op-ed opinion piece for the Berlin-based daily, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig looks at the contradictions between, on one hand, the continously deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and Germany’s dropping admission rates for Afghan refugees, particularly for young men. He calls it a ‘realities gap’ (in German). His […]

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An Inclusive Analysis Of European Union’s Engagements With The Afghan Taliban Since 2021 

Eurasia Review, 19 May 2026 A theory-heavy but still very comprehensive and interesting look at what the author – Abdul Wasi Popalzay, a doctoral researcher in Political Science and International Relations at the Central University of Punjab, India – describes as a descent from “principled pragmatism, maintaining normative rhetoric and institutionalized conditionality while strategically adapting […]

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Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices

BBC, 19 May 2026 A distressing story how increasing poverty caused by the post-2021 economic and humanitarian crisis (caused by Taleban restrictions and western donors’ disengagement) forces families to sell children to feed the remaining ones. This report indirectly provides background to the recently published Taleban “regulations of divorce” that, among other points, legalises many […]

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Afghan Women’s Health Worsens Amid Funding Cuts and Restrictions: AAN

Kabul Tribune, 19 May 2026 The Afghan website summarises AAN’s latest report, “Holding the Line in Afghanistan: Women’s health in crisis and one NGO’s response”, and emphasises its conclusion that “long-term improvement depends on lifting restrictions on female education and increasing investment in the health sector.”

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Neues Scheidungsrecht in Afghanistan: Die Taliban machen Frauen eine Scheidung fast unmöglich

Tageszeitung, 18 May 2026 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, for the German daily taz, looks at the Taleban’s new divorce regulations which – among other things – legalise (exclude from divorce) most forms of child marriage. While Iit grants the chance to girls/women, when reaching puberty, to go to court to file for annulation, Afghan civil society […]

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Holding the Line in Afghanistan: Women’s health in crisis and one NGO’s response 

Kate Clark • Fabrizio Foschini •

AAN has considered women’s health in Afghanistan from several angles in recent years, with bleak conclusions. We found provision for women living in rural areas under particular threat, with clinics closing, shortages of female health professionals and economic pressure making it difficult for families to afford transport to a clinic. In 2024, the Islamic Emirate […]

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Cross-border civilian casualties in Afghanistan: January – March 2026 [incl. the Kabul rehab centre bombing]

UNAMA, 12 May 2026 The most recent of UNAMA’s report on civilian casualties of the wars in Afghanistan, this times looking at casualties of the latest round of Afghan-Pakistani fighting. It also contains a summary of “airstrikes by Pakistani military forces [that] impacted the Omid Drug Rehabilitation Hospital (Omid Hospital), a facility for the treatment […]

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