Afghanistan Commission (Norway), 10 November 2025 The summary of the second Norwegian independent commission evaluating Norway’s civilian and military engagement in Afghanistan, this time in the period 2015–2021, building on the first commission’s report about the … period. The new report was presented to the ministries of foreign affairs and defence on 6 November and […]
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@mansfieldintinc, 24 October 2025 David Mansfield’s summary of ALCIS’s “2025 winter crop mapping for Afghanistan, including poppy” – we link David’s X threat instead of the original report. While the latter, at least in its headline’s suggests a ‘growth in poppy’, David differentiates: the poppy cultivation area in Afghanistan extended by more than 50 per […]
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ACLED, 6 October 2025 An analysis by the Uppsala-based conflicts monitors of ACLED of Pakistan’s Taleban movement, the TTP, which it says is gaining strength again, making it “one of the biggest national security threats in Pakistan.” Valuable context for the unresolved conflict between the Afghan Taleban and Pakistan that had recently flared up again. […]
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Pajhwok News Agency, 31 October 2025 An interesting combination of figures of population data used by Afghan authorities and UN agencies: Some international organizations estimated Afghanistan’s population at 42.6 million people in 2024, but the National Statistics and Information Authority (ASIA) declares these figures as inaccurate, saying that it has estimated Afghanistan’s population at 36.4 […]
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Human Rights Watch, 23 October 2025 Media freedom has further declined throughout Afghanistan over the past four years under Taleban rule, HRW states in a new report based on interviews with Afghan journalists within the country and in exile. They have subjected the remaining news outlets to surveillance and censorship. The journalists interviewed report that […]
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Scroll India, 13 October 2025 A reply by India-based Afghan journalist Muska Najibullah to Taleban foreign minister’s reference to Tagore’s novel ‘Kabuliwala’, on Afghans in Bengal, during his recent trip to India.
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Forbes, 12 October 2025 One of the few articles in the non-Afghan media covering the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan held the previous week in Madrid. You can read the tribunal’s indictment and the judges’ preliminary statement (final verdict planned for December) on the PTWA’s website, here.
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New York Times Magazine, 30 September 2025 A smashing five-part series by Matt Aikins about US military atrocities committed in Afghanistan, many of them by instrumentalising “proxy-force” programs. Here one scene from part 1: He told his men to release the detainee from the main gate; he and another Special Forces operator, meanwhile, slipped out […]
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BNE IntelliNews, 30 September 2025 A well-informed and comprehensive rendering of the current status of Tajik-Taleban relations by Bruce Pannier, tackling everything from terrorism/drug trade threats, Tajik electricity delivered to Afghanistan to Tajikistan’s successful opposition so far to the Taleban being invited to Shanghai Cooperation Organisaion’s meetings. He concludes: “This year has brought a change […]
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al-Jazeera, 27 September 2025 Ruchi Kumar takes up an important issue: reports that male rescue workers have let women die under the rubble of the recent earthquake in eastern Afghanistan because of a ‘ban’ for males to touch women. This article paints a much more complicated and more realistic picture.
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Rawadari, June 2025 Self-explaining title. See also Rawadari’s latest semi-annual human rights overview.
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NPR, 27 August 2025 … and this while the Chinese foreign minister was visiting Kabul. A flashlight on – not always easy – Taleban-Beijing relations. Here an even more detailed version.
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