The Persistent, 9 July 2026 Ruchi Kumar, long-standing Afghanistan watcher, looks back at the Herat protests against the Taleban’s policies, providing so far unknown detail on what happened there.
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Asylos, December 2025 While it is women and girls who are suffering most from the Taleban’s systematic policies of disenfranchisement, also other parts of the population are facing suppression. Here, a collection of sources on how Afghan men who do not follow the strict Taleban Vice and Virtue law are treated, by the UK-based NGO. […]
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BBC Turkish service, 27 June 2026 Afghan migrants accused Turkish border forces of beating, robbing and abandoning them in freezing weather near the Iranian border, leaving 11 people with amputations and at least 20 others dead, according to a BBC Afghan Forensic investigation published by BBC’s Turkish service. The investigation is based on interviews with […]
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New Lines Magazine, 16 June 2026 On-the-ground reportage by Afghan journalist Fazelminallah Qazizai on the civilian victims of Pakistan’s – so far – penultimate air strikes on Afghanistan in mid-June 2026. His conclusion: … what stands out most clearly on the ground is this: So far, nearly all of Pakistan’s strikes inside Afghanistan have targeted civilian […]
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Security Council Report, 1 June 2026 This report focusses on two Afghanistan-related activities of the UN Security Council: first, the renewal of the UNAMA mandate which is under pressure by the US which reportedly intends to ‘streamline’ the mission and has already recently been extended for a limited period only, and second, the UN resolution […]
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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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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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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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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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UNICEF, 27 April 2026 The study states that “UNICEF estimates produced in 2023 showed that the Afghan economy could lose the equivalent of up to 12.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) of 2022 if the decrees on girls’ education and women’s labour force participation remained in place through 2030. Conversely, if the decrees […]
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AFP, 17 April 2026 About 12,000 students displaced or affected by the war with Pakistan need safe spaces to learn or catch up on classes in Afghanistan. A short reportage from Kunar.
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BBC, 20 March 2026 Despite media and UN reports that a drug rehabilitation facility had been impacted, Pakistan’s military has not acknowledged civilian casualties. Instead, its military spokesman levied more accusations.“The truth is they round up drug addicts and use them as suicide bombers,” Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, Pakistan’s military’s spokesman, said in an […]
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