The Taliban
Women banned from raising their voices, looking at other men in Taliban crackdown
Religious police are roaming bus stops and shopping centres searching for dress code violations or any women who might laugh or raise their voices.
- by Rick Noack
Latest
She was one of the first to break at a Games. She seized the moment
She fled Afghanistan after the Taliban abducted her father. Now in Paris, Talash has found her voice on the world’s biggest stage.
- by Jordan Baker
Dutton’s climate politics put our children’s future at risk
What appears forgotten in this latest version of Australia’s climate wars is the reason why our planet cannot be allowed to pass 1.5 degrees of warming. At 1.5 degrees we trigger a domino event where a warming planet reinforces further warming that is irreversible.
Banned by the Taliban, this festival draws thousands of Afghans in Melbourne
Afghan Australians celebrated both Nowruz, or New Year, and the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr in Dandenong on Sunday.
- by Carolyn Webb
Perspective
World War I
In war, the horror is the only thing you can believe
Truth has been a stranger to wars of the past, and remains alien to current wars.
- by Tony Wright
Opinion
China relations
What China’s blossoming relationship with the Taliban says about its long-game
Through an alliance with Iran and burgeoning ties with Afghanistan, Beijing is looking past the Indo-Pacific and toward another region.
- by Amin Saikal
Updated
World elections
Pakistan shuts phone network on election day after bombings kill dozens
The move comes less than 24 hours after two bomb blasts targeted the offices of different political leaders in north-west Balochistan province.
- by Ismail Dilawar, Betsy Joles and Kamran Haider
Teenage girls ‘detained and lashed’ by Taliban amid hijab crackdown
Girls as young as 16 have been seized from markets, private classrooms and the streets of Kabul as well as other provinces, accused of violating strict dress rules.
- by Ruchi Kumar
Payne reveals Biden’s move that devastates her daily in rare public appearance
The former foreign and defence minister said not a day passed when she did not think about the plight of women in Afghanistan.
- by Latika Bourke
As a brutal winter approaches, Sajjad’s aunty has been forced back to the Taliban
International headlines are focused on Gaza, but another humanitarian crisis looms with Pakistan’s threatened deportation of 1.7 million people to Afghanistan.
- by Max Walden
Afghanistan’s triumph puts a smile on the face of the World Cup
Afghanistan’s crushing win over reigning champions England will be indelibly stamped into the archives of memorable World Cup moments.
- by Greg Baum
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