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    • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
      Currencies
      Afghan currency posts world-beating rally in third quarter

      Aid inflows and Taliban currency controls help afghani climb almost 10%

      Taliban members march in celebration in Kabul in August on the second anniversary of the fall of the Afghan capital to its fighters
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      UK politics
      UK government seeks to block evidence of Afghanistan whistleblower

      FCDO applies to have parts of former senior civil servant’s witness statement struck out for employment tribunal case

      British armed forces working with the US military to evacuate civilians out of Afghanistan in 2021
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Mark Malloch Brown
      The west must stop playing the ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan once and for all

      Current policy is harming the prospects of those who need our help most, particularly women and girls

      Afghan women hold placards in a protest to demand their right to education
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      US foreign policy
      US state department faults Biden and Trump for chaotic Afghan pullout

      Probe said military planners had failed to consider ‘worst-case scenarios’ and did not properly prepare for evacuation

      The US Air Force loads passengers aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircrcaft during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan in August 2021
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      Abdul Saboor Rahmany
      Afghanistan’s food crisis could have been avoided

      The US and its allies must prioritise investment in the country’s agricultural systems

      Afghan women queue for food rations in Kabul. Increased spending on agricultural research and development would mitigate risks such as extremism and poverty in poor countries
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      China holds security and trade talks with Taliban

      Beijing looks to boost investment in Afghanistan and bring country into Belt and Road project

      Qin Gang, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign ministers of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan respectively, after their meeting in Islamabad on Saturday
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      UN denounces Taliban prohibition on Afghan women aid workers

      Islamist group’s ban will exacerbate world’s ‘most severe humanitarian crisis’, says agency

      Afghan women hold placards at a demonstration
    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      US foreign policy
      White House says Trump ‘severely constrained’ options on Afghanistan pullout

      Biden administration also acknowledges change in evacuation policies after criticism over chaotic withdrawal

      A handout released by the British Ministry of Defence shows members of the UK and US armed forces working at Kabul Airport in August 2021
    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      UK public inquiries
      UK inquiry into SAS ‘death squad’ killings in Afghanistan begins

      Lord Justice Haddon-Cave says probe is ‘critical’ for reputation of armed forces and the country

      Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, chair of the independent inquiry relating to Afghanistan, reads an opening statement during the inquiry’s official launch
    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Taliban’s move to block women aid workers disrupts and divides NGOs

      Donors forced to consider compromising or shutting down operations in Afghanistan

      A Taliban fighter stands guard as a woman walks past in Kabul, Afghanistan
    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Lunch with the FT
      Afghan activist Zarifa Ghafari: ‘They sold Afghanistan to the Taliban’

      The exiled politician on the ‘game’ America plays in her homeland, the ‘Taliban twilight for women’ — and the day militants tried to blow up her car

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      ReviewFilm
      Retrograde — fascinating chronicle of the US exit from Afghanistan

      Matthew Heineman’s documentary is a multi-sided portrait with startling close-up access

      Soldiers in uniform stand in barren terrain and salute. In the background is a line of military vehicles
    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      Drug prices rise in Afghanistan after Taliban outlaws trade

      Cost of opium and methamphetamine soars despite little evidence the ban is being enforced

      Workers in an opium poppy field in Afghanistan
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Bomb blast at Kabul academy exposes growing danger for minorities

      Isis attacks have claimed hundreds of Hazara lives since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan

      A woman arrives on a motorbike to search for a relative at a hospital in Kabul after a bomb attack on Friday claimed at least 19 lives
    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      US creates fund to disburse $3.5bn of frozen Afghan bank reserves

      Move comes amid growing fears about economy under Taliban rule

      An Afghan girl carries a canister of water on her head in the Soton Sang in Dara-i Noor district of the Nangarhar province
    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      Behind the Money podcast23 min listen
      Afghanistan one year later

      How the economy has changed in the year since the Taliban retook control

    • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
      Jane Harman
      Six lessons for US foreign policy

      The chaotic exit from Afghanistan last year sowed doubt about America’s continued capacity for global leadership

      US soldiers stand guard behind barbed wire as Afghans sit on the roadside near the military base at Kabul airport
    • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      The village wedding caught in the Taliban’s battle for Kabul

      In August 2021, Dost Kol prepared to celebrate. The next 24 hours brought tragedy

      Sardar Mohammad holds the hand of his younger son on the way back from the cemetery
    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      ReviewArts
      The fall of Kabul and its aftermath vividly described in two new podcasts

      First-person testimony in Out of Afghanistan and Kabul Falling reveals stories of turmoil and new lives in the west

      A family sit in a car looking anxious; a large bag is strapped to the car roof
    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      Afghan roads once menaced by the Taliban are now safer — for some

      With the insurgents in power, countrywide routes are more secure but women face draconian travel restrictions

      Coal trucks on their way to Pakistan from  the Chinarak mine in Baghlan
    • Sunday, 14 August, 2022
      The Week Ahead
      A week for reflection: Afghanistan a year on, and 75 years since partition

      Plus, first steps in Nasa’s return to the Moon, and a peak week for Britain’s summer of discontent

      A Taliban fighter keeping a watch at an outpost in Tawakh, Anaba district, Panjshir province
    • Sunday, 14 August, 2022
      Annie Pforzheimer
      Engagement with Afghanistan will promote broader US strategic goals

      A well co-ordinated international effort is needed to address Taliban misrule and help the Afghan people

      A man in fatigues and turban pushes a woman in Muslim dress wearing a facemask
    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      How we live now: Afghanistan’s women speak

      Over the course of a year of Taliban rule, a group of women writers share their thoughts, fears and dreams via a messaging app

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      The Taliban’s black gold: militants seize on coal to reboot economy

      As Afghanistan battles economic crisis Islamists increase exports to generate revenue with the help of child labour

      A child working at Chinarak mines
    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      FT Series
      A year under the Taliban
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