As the security situation in Afghanistan deteriorates and the Taliban seem incapable of defeating ISKP and protecting religious minorities, Tehran is alarmed about the potential outbreak of a civil war next door and the chances that such a conflict might spill over into Iran. Under these circumstances, Iran may look for more effective means of countering ISKP.
After a year of being denied the right to go to school under the Taliban, the caged existence of Afghan girls comes to life in their drawings and diary entries. RFE/RL's Radio Azadi presents a collection of images and personal thoughts sent by girls from telling a story of broken hearts and dreams.
RAWA News: Afghanistan under the brutal rule of the Taliban is a big prison and slaughterhouse for its women and girls. The past one year was a complete catastrophe for Afghan women in every field of life. However, Afghan women were in the forefront of the fight for justice and their rights. Despite being suppressed, tortured and jailed, they continue to voice their opposition to Taliban and their foreign masters. We have listed few out of hundreds of women killed in the past five months that have been reported in the Afghan media:
Over the span of just a few weeks in 2021, the Taliban’s offensive shifted from rural threat to urban conquest before they walked into Kabul on Aug. 15. Times photographers were there to document that fateful summer in Afghanistan.
While Afghanistan's Taliban leadership has banned the transit of undocumented migrants across the border to Pakistan and Iran, it's nothing smugglers cannot overcome by greasing the palms of Taliban border guards and others along the way.