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    • 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
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Afghanistan
      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
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Travel
      The tour operators offering holidays to Afghanistan

      Despite security risks and the ongoing humanitarian crisis, a growing number of tourists are visiting the country

      The exterior of a Central Asian style mosque with domes, minarets and arches decorated with blue tiles
    • Friday, 7 April, 2023
      Afghanistan
      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, 5 January, 2023
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      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

    • Monday, 31 October, 2022
      Afghanistan
      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
      Afghanistan
      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, 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
      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
    • 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
    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      Drone strike killing of al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri deals setback to Taliban

      Afghan regime’s push for legitimacy has been undermined by US reach into heart of Kabul

      People gather around a Taliban flag as they wait for relatives to be released from jail
    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      The Taliban’s new order: ‘We’ll introduce a system for the world’

      Kabul regime is reshaping government and cracking down on corruption in its quest for a self-sufficient Islamic state

      Afghans on the street in Kabul, Afghanistan
    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      Life under the Taliban: ‘what matters is that we’re hungry’

      Economic collapse since Islamists retook power a year ago leaves many Afghans struggling to make ends meet

      Shopkeeper Rajab Ali Yousefi
    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Disaster aid for Afghans should not have strings attached

      Providing emergency relief does not equate to validating the Taliban

      An Afghan girl walks over piles of rubble next to a collapsed home
    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Afghanistan
      Afghanistan earthquake kills more than 1,000 people

      The 5.9-magnitude quake comes as Taliban struggle to govern amid wider economic crisis

      People look at a house destroyed by the earthquake in Paktika, eastern Afghanistan
    • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
      InterviewAfghanistan
      Qatar urges west to engage with Taliban to stem crisis in Afghanistan

      One of the few countries to have relations with Islamist regime warns of rising extremism

      Taliban troops stand guard during a ceremony
    • Sunday, 8 May, 2022
      Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces in public

      Return of repressive decrees undermines vows last year of more moderate regime than in 1990s

      An Afghan burka-clad woman walks with a child in Kabul
    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      Watches & Jewellery
      Black market deals raise fears for ancient Afghan jewellery treasures

      Amid the Taliban takeover, ancient artefacts are finding their way to international collectors

      Ornament for the neck of a robe, Tillya tepe, gold, turquoise, garnet, and pyrite, 1st century B.C.
    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      News in-depthAfghanistan
      Taliban restrictions signal dominance of the mullahs

      Millions of Afghans are at risk of famine but new rulers defy potential donors and crack down on women

      Afghan women and girls take part in a protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls
    • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
      Education
      Secret schools keep Afghan girls learning

      Rule-breaking teachers defy Taliban to provide lessons

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