Taliban ideology

Taliban policing hospital entrances, denying entry to women without complete burqa covering - MSF

The report comes after women were left laying in rubble for hours, waiting for female rescuers following an earthquake.

Afghan women and children wait for their turn to see a doctor at Yaka Dokan health clinic run by nonprofit organization World Vision, in Yaka Dokan village, Herat, Afghanistan
Afghanistan's Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi speaks at the roundtable at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) in New Delhi, India, October 13, 2025.

Modi under scrutiny after Taliban allowed to exclude female journalists from Delhi press event

Two Afghan women in interview with Reuters.

Afghan women battle the Taliban's Sharia laws with hair salons, underground businesses - report

 A woman wearing a burqa sits on the side of a road in Kabul, Afghanistan October 21, 2021.

Afghan women’s org. push back after US scholar says Afghan refugees ‘should not fear repatriation’


Russia presses Taliban to open up government, calls for Afghan aid

"Nobody is interested in the complete paralysis of an entire state," said a Kremlin spokesman, a Russia urges international support for Afghanistan.

 Head of the Taliban delegation Abdul Salam Hanafi attends international talks on Afghanistan in Moscow, Russia, October 20, 2021.

Why aren’t attacks on mosques in Afghanistan a crime against humanity?

Such attacks are generally ignored by the international community - where are the international court tribunals?

 Men inspect the site of a blast inside a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan June 12, 2020.

When Iran, the Taliban and Hamas met

Iran is mastermind behind the Taliban takeover. The plain fact is Iran has spent a decade preparing for the Taliban’s eventual takeover and the once-mortal enemies have collaborated closely.

 Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul  Ghani Bardar in Tehran on Jaunary 31, 2021.

Israelis secretly evacuated 167 Afghans

Israel secretly evacuated Afghan refugees through Albania, including judges, journalists, law enforcement officers, scientists and more.

 Afghan passport.

LGBTQ people are being hunted down in Afghanistan

Even before the Taliban takeover, the LGBTQ suffered discrimination - now it is so much worse.

 Taliban delegates, Shahabuddin Delawar and Khairullah Khairkhwa wait ahead of a meeting with U.S. and European delegates in Doha, Qatar October 12, 2021.

The Taliban and implicit antisemitism in int'l relations - analysis

Why is it that the one Jewish-majority state is the only one that certain governments, among them Taliban, Pakistan and Malaysia, refuse to have relations with?

 The United Nations Security Council meets regarding the situation in Afghanistan in at the United Nations in New York City.

Taliban says it surrounded Afghan resistance fighters, calls for peace

In a recorded speech addressed to Afghans in Panjshir, senior Taliban leader Amir Khan Motaqi called on the rebels to put down their weapons.

 TALIBAN FORCES stand guard inside Kabul earlier this month.

The Taliban have an ‘Emirate,’ if they can keep it

The Taliban have completed their takeover of Afghanistan, but it remains to be seen whether they can exercise their own rule with several nations seeking to capitalize on America's absence.

 Mullah Baradar Akhund, a senior official of the Taliban, seated with a group of men, makes a video statement, in this still image taken from a video recorded in an unidentified location and released on August 16, 2021

Afghanistan: Taliban shoots and kills several protesters

Several people were killed on Thursday in the Afghan city of Asadabad when Taliban fighters fired on people waving the national flag, a day after three people were killed in a similar protest.

 A TALIBAN fighter inside the city of Ghazni, Afghanistan, last weekend.

Islamic council to decide women's role in Afghanistan

A senior Taliban official said the rights of women to work and go to school, as well as how they dress, will be determined by a council of Islamic scholars.

 Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan August 17, 2021.