Tag: afghanistan

• Four years on from the Taliban takeover, Afghan women are asserting themselves through art

  August 16, 2025

  Having lost many opportunities and rights under the new leadership, women are finding in miniature paintings, abstract textiles and more an important means of expression https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/15/four-years-on-from-taliban-takeover-afghan-women-are-asserting-themselves-through-art more ›

• Afghan Style – Thousand Yard Studio

  March 15, 2025

  Afghan Style is a fashion study of the Afghan man. Afghans have proven to be the most stylish men I have ever encountered; self-possessed, proud, sophisticated, & nuanced. As individuals & … more ›

• New Lives in the City: How Taleban have experienced life in Kabul

  February 26, 2023

  A large number of Taleban fighters have moved to Afghanistan’s cities since the movement’s capture of power, many of them seeing life in the city for the first time in… more ›

• What it’s like being a woman in Afghanistan today: ‘death in slow motion’

  July 30, 2022

  On early Monday morning, just before the break of dawn, a 23-year-old Afghan journalist packed her bags, said quiet goodbyes to her family and left her home in a carefully… more ›

• Greece builds 40km fence to stop Afghan asylum seekers from entering Europe

  August 22, 2021

  Citizens’ protection minister Michalis Chrisochoidis said the extension to the existing 12.5km fence on its border with Turkey is complete and has been fitted with a hi-tech, automated electronic monitoring… more ›

• The Coming Afghan Refugee Crisis Is Only a Preview

  August 22, 2021

  Two developments over the past week are harbingers of a storm that may test Western democracy to destruction. First, the imminent collapse of the Afghan state risks sending a massive… more ›

• Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight

  August 21, 2021

  Not all battles can be won with language, arguments, conferences, or diplomacy. About the author: Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a fellow at the SNF Agora… more ›

• What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan?

  April 13, 2021

  The Taliban are gaining strength. Opium production has quadrupled. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html more ›

• A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America’s Exit Strategy From Its Longest War

  December 21, 2020

  The buzz of a drone at night was the first sign of trouble. Next came the roar of a larger, low-flying aircraft, which alerted residents of the Afghan village of… more ›

• Can ICC chief prosecutor Bensouda hit back at President Trump?

  September 20, 2020

  A climate of fear reigns in The Hague following Washington’s move to blacklist the ICC prosecutor in response to the institution’s opening of an inquiry into war crimes and crimes… more ›