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@lemmy.mlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban.html
Nearly a year since the Taliban seized power, new restrictions have reshaped the social fabric. Schools and jobs are again off-limits for women, music has been banned, and beards are mandatory for men — just like in the 1990s.
https://youtu.be/x2hw_ghPcQs
John Oliver discusses what’s happened since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, how their ongoing crisis has even more to do with our decisions than you migh...
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-health-asia-pacific-poverty-kabul-a09066367bc58a934a2360dbbd0958f4
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of men, strung out on heroin, opium and meth, were strewn over the hillside overlooking Kabul, some in tents, some lying in the dirt.
https://www.workers.org/?p=60695
Contrary to the narrative of U.S. politicians and journalists, the August 2021 withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan did not mark the end of the United States’ so-called “forever war” but rather a shift in U.S. policy — from direct military intervention and occupation to one based on e
https://apnews.com/article/religion-afghanistan-kabul-taliban-22f5107f1dbd19c8605b5b5435a9de54
One of the founders of the Taliban says the hard-line movement will once again carry out punishments like executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/09/22/667049/Are-Afghan-women-allowed-to-work-under-the-Taliban-
Press TV takes you to a hospital in the Afghan city of Herat.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/09/03/665746/China-foreign-ministry-US-imposing-norms-Afghanistan-debacle-
Beijing tells Washington to ponder on the recent advice of Russian President Vladimir Putin to quit imposing American norms on other nations after the Afghanistan fiasco.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/30/an-afghan-family-killed-by-a-us-airstrike-in-kabul?
Ten people from a Kabul neighbourhood killed in US drone attack – Washington claims ISKP fighters were the target.