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Afghanistan

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    The EU’s €13bn bite into Apple

    Apple suffers a major defeat as the bloc’s top court rules that it must pay €13bn in back taxes

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Taliban’s closer ties with UAE signal global divide over Afghan regime

    Regional powers boost diplomatic and trade links with Islamist group as they fear spread of instability

    Mawlawi Badruddin Haqqani hands over a copy of his credentials to Saif Abdullah Al Shamsi during a ceremony in front of a United Arab Emirates flag
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    German politics
    Germany deports Afghans for first time since Taliban’s return to power

    Refugee advocacy groups criticise expulsion of 28 convicted criminals to country that has no diplomatic ties with Berlin

    A man crouches to place a candle among a large collection of flowers and candles arranged on the ground as a memorial near the site of a recent attack in Solingen, Germany. Several people in the background are standing, some with bicycles and cameras.
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    Hollywoodgate — at home with the Taliban after the US left Afghanistan

    Ibrahim Nash’at’s documentary examines the panicked American exit in 2021 and the Taliban’s takeover

    A group of men wearing turbans and traditional Afghan dress sit on chairs in front of a large crowd
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Tej Parikh
    Economists are overly reliant on rules

    Causal theories may help simplify the world, but reality is far more complex

    Illustration of a person looking thoughtfully at a series of what appear to be beads forming a complex pattern
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The Taliban mining boom

    Islamist regime has issued hundreds of contracts to tap gold, gemstones and minerals

  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    ReviewArts
    Afghan Star podcast review — story of a TV show that gripped the country

    New series relates the rise of Afghanistan’s answer to ‘American Idol’ following the fall of the Taliban

    A woman with very long hair, wearing a glamorous trailing dress, sings into a microphone on a TV show
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    News in-depthTerrorism
    How the Taliban’s return made Afghanistan a hub for global jihadis

    Analysts say Isis-K — the group blamed for the Moscow attack — gained strength after US withdrawal

    Gunmen open fire at Crocus City Hall near Moscow
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    UK immigration
    ‘Secret’ decision to stop issuing visas to Afghans fleeing Taliban potentially unlawful

    Official report by Home Office watchdog finds ‘unpublished policy’ affecting resettlement schemes started in November 2022

    Afghan refugees board a British transport plane as they flee the Taliban in August 2021
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan
    Pakistan battles rising terror threat in Afghan border regions

    Islamabad blames Taliban for harbouring militants despite supporting the group during US occupation

  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    OutlookZehra Munir
    Expulsion from Pakistan makes Afghan refugees a political football once more

    Islamabad’s crackdown on foreign nationals has disproportionately affected the well-established population

    Afghan refugees in a camp near the Torkham border crossing last November
  • Tuesday, 2 January, 2024
    Afghan women and girls flock online to evade Taliban curbs on female education

    Digital platforms say tens of thousands have enrolled for internet classes since imposition of restrictions

    Afghan women walk along a street at a market in the Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Taliban carry out hundreds of floggings as grip tightens on Afghanistan

    Afghan Witness analysis finds corporal punishment frequently imposed for crimes such as adultery and robbery

    A Taliban security officer stands guard at a public flogging held at a football stadium in Charikar, near Kabul, in December last year
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    News in-depthCricket
    Crisis-hit Afghanistan celebrates surprise Cricket World Cup success

    Underdog’s victories over powerhouses such as England offer cheer to fans in Taliban-ruled nation

    Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan celebrates with a teammate during a match against Australia on Tuesday
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    News in-depthPakistan
    Pakistan’s expulsion order pushes uprooted Afghans into crisis under Taliban

    More than 200,000 people have been told to return to a country in grip of humanitarian crisis

    People and trucks with rocky mountains in the background
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Pakistan
    Pakistan steps up Afghan expulsions despite international criticism

    Order to expand border facilities could double flow of migrants being forced to return to Taliban-ruled neighbour

    Afghan migrants walk towards the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Torkham
  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    Pakistan
    Tens of thousands of Afghans flee Pakistan amid crackdown on migrants

    Undocumented Afghans forced to return to Taliban-led homeland after warning from security forces

    An Afghan boy climbs on to a truck at a holding centre in north-west Pakistan as migrant families prepare to depart for Afghanistan
  • Sunday, 8 October, 2023
    Hundreds killed as Afghanistan reels from 6.3 magnitude earthquake

    Officials struggle to cope with one of the deadliest natural disasters to hit the country in recent years

    The rescuers stand on top of a pile of bricks
  • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
    Currencies
    Afghan currency posts world-beating rally in third quarter

    Aid inflows and Taliban currency controls help afghani climb almost 10%

    Taliban members march in celebration in Kabul in August on the second anniversary of the fall of the Afghan capital to its fighters
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    UK politics
    UK government seeks to block evidence of Afghanistan whistleblower

    FCDO applies to have parts of former senior civil servant’s witness statement struck out for employment tribunal case

    British armed forces working with the US military to evacuate civilians out of Afghanistan in 2021
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Mark Malloch Brown
    The west must stop playing the ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan once and for all

    Current policy is harming the prospects of those who need our help most, particularly women and girls

    Afghan women hold placards in a protest to demand their right to education
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    US foreign policy
    US state department faults Biden and Trump for chaotic Afghan pullout

    Probe said military planners had failed to consider ‘worst-case scenarios’ and did not properly prepare for evacuation

    The US Air Force loads passengers aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircrcaft during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan in August 2021
  • Monday, 5 June, 2023
    Abdul Saboor Rahmany
    Afghanistan’s food crisis could have been avoided

    The US and its allies must prioritise investment in the country’s agricultural systems

    Afghan women queue for food rations in Kabul. Increased spending on agricultural research and development would mitigate risks such as extremism and poverty in poor countries
  • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
    China holds security and trade talks with Taliban

    Beijing looks to boost investment in Afghanistan and bring country into Belt and Road project

    Qin Gang, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign ministers of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan respectively, after their meeting in Islamabad on Saturday
  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    UN denounces Taliban prohibition on Afghan women aid workers

    Islamist group’s ban will exacerbate world’s ‘most severe humanitarian crisis’, says agency

    Afghan women hold placards at a demonstration
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