The Pashtun-backed Sunni Islamist movement known as the Taliban emerged in the 1990s. Following rapid territorial expansion, they dominated much of Afghanistan between 1996 and their subsequent ousting by the United States in 2001. Their rule was marked by a...
Victory against the US, ethnic conflict within Afghanistan and disappointment...
The Pashtun-led Taliban are ripping up Afghanistan’s fragile social contract...
The very real threats of mass hunger and sectarian violence...
In Afghanistan, the picture is more complicated than a simple...
The US must not keep bombing and killing civilians to...
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