Afghanistan

The Taliban has been back in power for five years and has introduced a brutally repressive regime against women. How long can it last?

Afghanistan underwent such profound change after the Taliban takeover that it has become a different country. One stranded diplomat has continued to speak for the old, vanished nation

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has just released a new penal code. The rules it sets out are relentlessly brutal and backward

Photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli’s photographs of Afghanistan go beyond the cliched bullets and burkas to challenge our perceptions of the country

From Mariupol to Tehran, Cecilia Sala’s new book captures young people forced into extraordinary acts of resistance

In an attempt to control the flow of information, the rulers of Afghanistan plunged the country into darkness. That decision has backfired

A devastating earthquake hit Afghanistan, and the call for aid has gone out. But if it’s all being stolen by the Taliban, what’s the point?

Drug tycoon Bashir Noorzai was seized and jailed for life by the US. Yet somehow he is free - and has reinvented himself as gatekeeper to Afghanistan’s trillion-dollar rare earth treasure trove

The country’s ‘Freedom Pilots’ flew alongside American colleagues before being given refuge in the US when the Taliban returned. Now the MAGA regime wants to send them home – to what fate?

The Afghan leak cover-up is symptomatic of a crumbling, outmoded state where self-preservation trumps honour

The Afghans who served with western forces have been let down by ignorant politicians with no idea who the Taliban truly are

A new exhibition of Hetherington’s greatest photographs is not of guns and bombs – but of the men who use them

The militant fighters running Afghanistan have shut down the heroin trade – but what happens to drugs in Europe as a result could be a disaster

Hundreds of Afghan artists have had to flee the country since the regime closed down galleries and threatened them with prison

Scores of Afghans who helped the British in Kabul had to flee to Iran when the Taliban took power. But now Iran is sending them back, to almost certain death

A year on from the fall of Afghanistan, one journalist’s terrifying return...

I was planning to take a degree in law and work as a lawyer or a judge. Now my dreams and goals are lost

Al-Qaida’s leader is dead but terrorism is very much alive.. and the next wave of it to strike Britain may come from the extreme right

Waleed Akhtar has produced an elegantly written, often very funny, piece that works precisely because it takes a moral position on Afghanistan

Raab has not received a single donation since last summer, even from his old pal Dmitry Leus. So, if Harding ran again, there is little doubt she win the former foreign secretary's seat

The UK encouraged Afghan women to take up top judicial roles. Now they need, and deserve, our help, argues Baroness Kennedy.

TIM WALKER on the suggestion the government's contradictions over Afghan refugees.

The Afghan capital’s main stadium was used by the Taliban for public executions – and it may be again. But for PAT McFADDEN the venue was once a place of optimism

As the world waits to see the extent to which the Taliban’s victory will see the return of its brutal interpretation of Islamic law, RASHMEE ROSHAN LALL reports on different approaches used in other Muslim countries

The Conservative MP and former soldier, whose moving speech on the tragedy in Afghanistan brought applause from the Commons, writes for The New European, and warns of an impending human calamity .. and China's role in a new global attitude to intervention.

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on the shameful moral vacuum that is the British government of today

Afghanistan treasures its relationship with Britain, says its ambassador to the UK, said Tayeb Jawad. Here he outlines his hopes that relationship will not be harmed by Brexit. Afghan ambassador  When Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, woke to the news that the country had voted for Brexit, he knew that his […]