Tag: taliban

• 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 ›

• 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 ›

• How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity and Carnage

  May 26, 2020

  The Taliban stand on the brink of realizing their most fervent desire: U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan. They have given up little of their extremist ideology to do it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-war.html more ›

• Taliban fighters double as reporters to wage Afghan digital war

  May 20, 2019

  KABUL (Reuters) – Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesman and editor-in-chief of the insurgent group’s daily news bulletin, starts every day by collecting reports of overnight fighting with U.S. and… more ›