Only four countries recognised the Taliban when it was last in power: neighbouring Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkmenistan. The US and the United Nations imposed sanctions on the Taliban and most countries are unlikely to recognise the group diplom...
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Taliban publishes vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public Aug. 22, 2024 The proposed amendments are backed by most Shiite legislators in a bloc called the Coordination Framework that holds a parliament majority. But disputes continue ...
More than ever, the image of the Middle East conveyed even by our more responsible media is compounded almost wholly - as Irwin ruefully puts it in the updated edition - of "Taliban, fatwas, suicide bombers, Intifada, disputes over water rights, OPEC meetings, demonstrations, arrests and ...
I think radical Islamism, whether of the al-Qaeda, Taliban or ISIS variety is horrific, and against everything you and I stand for in terms of secular, liberal pluralism—otherwise known as “democracy” in shorthand. I think organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood are ...
Twenty years after 9/11, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is moving faster than expected, and so is the Taliban’s takeover. The Taliban have already taken more than 50 of the country’s 400 districts since May, with the US intelligence community predicting that the Afghan government could...
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2002: The UN Security Council unanimously agrees on an arms embargo and freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the Taliban. 2003: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for its final mission, STS-107. The shuttle will disintegrate on re-entry, 16 days later. On January 17, 1377...
It’s worth recalling that the Talibanpositioned themselvesas a kinder, gentler Taliban 2.0 before they seized all of Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, and they are now ruling with an iron misogynic fist just as they did the last time they were in power before the 9/11 attacks. An...
k、 A. Nobel Peace4Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says she is excited to be home in Pakistan for the first time since the Taliban tried to kill her in2012. She was just 14 when attackers got on her school bus in Swat Valley and shot her in the head. They wanted to stop her growing...