From Terror to Trade Deals: How the Taliban Turn ISKP Attacks into Diplomatic Leverage
ISKP attacks struck foreign interests in Kabul. Trade deals followed. How the Taliban turned persistent insecurity into diplomatic leverage.
Writer
Al Khabeer
Special Investigative Desk
The GDI’s Dirty War: How the Taliban Weaponize ISKP Against Afghanistan’s Resistance
An investigation examines that the Taliban’s GDI used ISKP attacks and delayed claims to frame Afghanistan’s resistance.
How Noor Wali Censored RAND and Confessed to TTP’s Collapse From Within
Inside Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud’s 14-page “survival manual” — and the RAND finding it leaves out.
Made in Kandahar: How the Taliban Built and Weaponized ISKP
When Kabul fell, ISKP prisoners went free. Al Khabeer examines the Taliban's prison releases, militant networks and claims of fighting Daesh.
Ahmad Shah Massoud Fell. Afghanistan’s Fight for Freedom Did Not.
Twenty-five years after Massoud’s assassination, his unfinished struggle for a free Afghanistan still challenges Taliban rule.
Taliban Are Turning Foreign Terrorists Into “Afghans” Through Tazkiras and Police Recruitment
UN reports say Taliban authorities issued Afghan IDs and passports to foreign militants, with some later joining Taliban security forces.
Is Mullah Yaqoob Building a TTP Power Base in Afghanistan Against Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada?
Inside the Kabul–Kandahar power corridors: sources describe an emerging struggle involving Mullah Yaqoob, TTP and Taliban leadership.
The Taliban promised order. Afghanistan got anything but.
Five years after taking power, the movement that justified its rule on the promise of security has presided over a landscape of rolling instability.
The Taliban's war on women is policy, not tradition
Defenders of the Taliban frame their restrictions on women as cultural. They are not. They are political choices, imposed from the top, that much of Afghan society opposes.