Drop Site News, 19 March 2026 Important on-the-ground reporting on Pakistan’s air strike against a Kabul drub rehab centre.
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UNDP blog, 30 January 2026 In August 2025, the Emirate passed its five-year development strategy, the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS, 2025-2030). Muhammad Nassim Attahi, UNDP Afghanistan’s chief economist, look at it in a short analysis and finds its main goals – an annual export growth of 10%, attracting at least $5 billion in foreign direct […]
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TRT World, 14 January 2026 Interesting article by Sheereena Qazi, including statements from an interview with a former SIGAR staff rendering how the SIGAR’s final report was heavily redacted and lessons learned watered down – something you probably won’t get in the US media anymore. The culture “to write in plain language” … began to […]
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PRIO, December 2025 This new report of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, authored by old Afghan hands Arne Strand and Kristian Berg Harpviken together with (for good reasons) unnamed Afghan researchers, explores the challenges and opportunities for girls’ higher education caused by the Taleban administration’s restrictive policies and bans on secondary and university education for […]
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The Hill, 7 January 2026 In this opinion piece, HRW’s associate Asia director Patti Gossman points to the background of the controversial Afghan Zero Units, in one of which the Washington shooter of two National Guard members served in the past, writing “some have used the term ‘death squad‘” for them for their repeated targeting of civilians […]
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Tolonews, 6 January A rare example of a critical article getting through Taleban censorship. It follows on the Taleban’s own assessment, reported here and a first Tolo review here. Here quotes from this article: University professor Alireza Kargar said: “When we say our diplomacy is economy-focused and we’ve followed this policy for a year, we […]
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Washington Post, 12 December 2025 The post, on the basis of satellite images and other sources, has evaluated the Taleban’s use of Bagram airbase. The findings “suggests that the cash-strapped and isolated regime has managed only limited use of many of the bases. (…) Satellite images indicate only minor military activity there over the past […]
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al-Jazeera, 26 December 2025 Against the backdrop of recent incidents at the Afghan-Tajik border, this backgrounder looks at Taleban-Tajik and other regional relations. It comes to the conclusion that, while Tajikistan has not blamed any group, it bears the “hallmarks of the ISIL (ISIS) affiliate in Khorasan Province (ISKP). “The ISKP has attacked foreigners inside […]
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OpinioJuris, 16 December 2025 This article, the former chief legal counsel for Task Force Liberty, as part of Operation Allies Welcome, the US mission to evacuate and resettle Afghan refugees reviews the three different pathways (bespoke legislation, refugee admissions, discretionary parole) through which, since 2021, nearly 200,000 Afghans have been admitted into the United States and the […]
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Justice Info, 15 December 2025 In this interview, Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, says the situation in Afghanistan is “an attempt to dominate one gender over another gender by a gender group in power.” Therefore, he concludes, the term ‘gender apartheid’ is appropriate to describe it: “if you applied to […]
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Zan Times, 1 December 2025 A gripping story on murdered Herati poet Nadia Anjoman, victim of a femicide. The story of her death is still distorted.
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[Toyota’s negative response to the Taliban] BBC Dari, 22 November 2025 The Taleban planned to replace the Afghan police’s main personnel carrier – the US-produced Ranger pick-up (sanction make it difficult to obtain spare parts) – by another brand, and turned to Toyota. The reply was negative: Toyota’s official representative in Afghanistan, Habib Gulzar Motors, […]
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