Amu TV, 25 August 2025 Afghan exile media platform Amu TV surveyed the countrywide implementation (or not) of the Taleban leader’s August 2024 decree to stop publishing images of living beings: According to Amu’s findings, in 16 provinces — Nuristan, Sar-e-Pul, Bamyan, Laghman, Zabul, Uruzgan, Helmand, Jawzjan, Faryab, Badghis, Farah, Daikundi, Kapisa, Panjshir, Kandahar and […]
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Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, 14 August 2025 A useful summary of the latest UN reports about Afghanistan, by UN Women und UNAMA. With a very useful and graphically accessible overview over the “complex patchwork of more than 80 edicts, directives and decrees introduced by the Taliban has directly and systematically targeted women’s rights and […]
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Worldaffairs21c at Substack, 13 August 2025 It is time to move beyond the repetitive distribution of sewing machines and toward a more strategic restoration of livelihoods. (…) Some aid organizations have already demonstrated what’s possible. They have responsibly helped women acquire vocational skills and launch small enterprises in culturally accepted sectors such as tailoring, embroidery, livestock […]
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Rukhshana Media, 8 August 2025 Stories told by Afghan forced returnees from Iran – some never lived in Afghanistan – from a park in Herat turned into a makeshift camp. The only help available in Herat is from local volunteers in the city, where people have mobilised to assist the new arrivals coming across the […]
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ACAPS, 12 February 2025 This report by the analysis organisation ACAPS throws interesting light on the situation of female Afghan entrepreneurs that are caught between the Taleban policies banning women (if not completely segregated from men) from almost all spheres of social life and the urge to generate income, including by those who lost their […]
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BBC, 15 July 2025 The BBC and many British media are reporting that the UK government was forced to speed up the evacuation of thousands of eligible Afghans, many of them still in the country, after a February 2022 data leak that might have reached the Taleban but was kept secret until yesterday. “Personal details […]
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Afghan Hindsight, 10 July 2025 An overview by Tim Foxley, using UN, ACLED and other material.
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MEMRI, 3 July 2025 In this report, the analysis platform reports that, after the April 2025 suspension by Russia’s Supreme Court of the country’s ban on Taleban activities in Russia, a Taleban delegation attended the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2025 (SPIEF) and agreed to bring 1,000 Afghan workers to regions in Russia. This marks […]
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The Independent, 1 July 2025 The British daily reports: Resettlement schemes for Afghans to come to the UK after the Taliban takeover have been suddenly closed by the government. The changes have been snuck out in an explanatory memorandum to new immigration rules published by the Home Office. The Ministry of Defence’s resettlement programme for Afghans who […]
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Reason, 1 July 2025 Beth Bailey, host of The Afghanistan Project., writes: As the U.S. wraps up the congressionally mandated Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts (CARE) program, uncertainty for allies overseas is on the rise. Some allies who relied on CARE housing for safety while waiting on a yearslong processing queue now face an uncertain future, while […]
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al-Jazeera, 28 June 2025 The Qatar-based broadcaster reports about the situation in Tehran’s Afghans population, following Iran’s recently announced plans to deport up to two million undocumented Afghans in the wake of the US/Israel-Iran war.
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Oxus Watch, 12 June 2025 The first analysis in an announced new series by Sweden-based Afghan analyst Abdul Sayed. Here, he looks at the ban in the context of discussion in Islamist circles about the permission to carry out jihad abroad but also in the light of current events, mainly the post-2021 Pakistan-Taleban tensions, motivated, […]
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