The Taliban has carried out three public executions in just five days with impunity. The government has again started amputating, lashing, and executing people publicly for various crimes. In a recent incident reported from the city of Shibirghan, the Taliban on February 26 held a public execution for a man convicted of murder. The executed … Read more
On Monday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres revealed a plan to start discussions for the appointment of a UN envoy to mediate relations between the Taliban and the international community. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org During a press briefing, Guterres mentioned that the Taliban declined his invitation to attend the … Read more
The al-Qaeda terrorist organization is having a resurgence in Afghanistan under the ruling Taliban, setting up eight new training camps alongside five madrasas, Islamic educational institutions, around the country, a report from the UN Security Council in late January has revealed. The report said that the training camps are located in various provinces, including … Read more
The Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, believes that his regime has done better for women in Afghanistan than any previous government. Akhunzada made the claims in a radio broadcast and listed the kinds of “rights” that have been given to women since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021. He said that unlike previous governments, … Read more
The Taliban has been arresting women for not wearing a hijab “properly”, according to its Vice and Virtue Ministry. However, it is not yet clear how many women have been put behind bars for the same. They reportedly began arresting women soon after they took over Afghanistan in August 2021 for not following the strict … Read more
Syria, Iran and Afghanistan are considered high-risk for Westerners to visit today – but when one European travelled around them in the 1970s, he discovered ‘heaven nearly everywhere’. Dutch native Frank van den Berge, 73, took incredible photographs of his time in these countries, showing Afghanistan before the Taliban, Iran in an era when people … Read more
The Taliban government in Afghanistan has been sending female abuse survivors to prison while claiming that it is for their “protection,” a new United Nations report has revealed. These survivors of gender-based violence are sent to prison in case they don’t have a male guardian or a male relative with whom they could feel “safe”. … Read more
Since the Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan in 2021, the nation’s public health sector has been on life support, with foreign aid agencies stepping in to pay health workers and sustain hospitals and local health centers. The country’s donor-dependent economy has teetered on the brink of collapse as foreign donors cut off development assistance … Read more
