Sushmita Banerjee: The Bengali writer who escaped the Taliban and wrote about life under its rule

Her memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou inspired the 2003 film Escape From Taliban. Nearly two decades after fleeing Afghanistan, ...

At 16, I was brainwashed to be a Taliban suicide bomber. Now, I work for the NHS

If Maiwand Banayee’s life had gone to plan, he’d be dead by now. As a teenager in Afghanistan, his goal in life was to become ...
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UNAMA: Taliban systemically erasing women’s public life and freedom of movement

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday released its first quarterly human rights report of 2025, stating that the Taliban continues to implement decrees aimed at erasing women ...
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Since 2021, rule by rule: How the Taliban have erased women from public life

When the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, it did not simply change the flag over Kabul. It altered the everyday world of Afghan women in a way that is now hard to comprehend from outside the ...
Yahoo

Real life in Afghanistan – as told by a Taliban commander

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Armed Taliban personnel in north-eastern Afghanistan, pictured earlier this month - AFP Jamila Afghani, one of Afghanistan’s top ...
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A year ago, she drank battery acid to escape life under the Taliban. Today, she has a message for other Afghan girls

Holding a mirror steady in one hand, Arzo carefully applies pencil to her brows as she gets ready for an English lesson a short walk from her home on the outskirts of Pakistani megacity Karachi. Every ...
The New York Times

When the Taliban Took Kabul, She Fled, and Made a New Life in New York

Nargis Baran was a rising legal star in Afghanistan. She became a target once the government fell. By Karen Zraick The night Kabul fell to the Taliban, a young lawyer named Nargis Baran was holed up ...
The New York Times

The Taliban ruined the dreams of female Afghan footballers. In exile, their struggle to play continues

“My team-mates are my sisters. Our dream is to play together again, standing side by side.” In June 2021, Fatima Foladi was a rising football star in Afghanistan when she scored against Tajikistan in ...
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Why Did Malala Yousafzai Slam EU-Taliban Talks? ‘Europe Must Not Legitimise’ Regime, Says Nobel Laureate

Malala Yousafzai criticised the EU for hosting Taliban officials in Brussels, saying it risks legitimising a regime that has “erased women and girls from public life.” ...
Reuters

Life, death and the Taliban: Blowback

"The Taliban served its purpose for Pakistan and the United States. There is a reason the United States was on board with the Taliban as well in the mid-1990s. They wanted to set up the natural gas ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

2 U.S. Men Freed In Afghanistan In Exchange For Taliban Serving Life In California

U.S. officials and media confirmed the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in exchange for a Taliban man imprisoned for life in California on drug and terrorism charges. Taliban leaders on ...
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She drank battery acid to escape life under the Taliban, now she has a message for Afghan girls

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