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An investigation examines that the Taliban’s GDI used ISKP attacks and delayed claims to frame Afghanistan’s resistance.
ICC warrants put Haibatullah and Taliban rule under scrutiny over persecution of Afghan women, restrictions, punishments and wider rights abuses.
Pakistan’s decades-long pursuit of strategic depth in Afghanistan has ended in border insecurity, TTP violence and repeated strikes inside Afghanistan.
Twenty-five years after Massoud’s assassination, his unfinished struggle for a free Afghanistan still challenges Taliban rule.
Five years after taking power, the movement that justified its rule on the promise of security has presided over a landscape of rolling instability.
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.
