Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...
A January 2025 SIGAR report emphasized that the Taliban—whom the US does not recognize as Afghanistan’s government and has ...
The Taliban emerged in the void left by a series of devastating civil wars in Afghanistan towards the end of the last century. As warlords capitalised on the chaos and wrestled for power ...
How did a leftist government help ferment the Taliban? After an initial purge ... and the old mujahedeen commanders turned into warlords – with different factions in different regions ...
When the Taliban first rose to power in the 1990s, they claimed one of their chief grievances was this 'perversion' among the warlords, and they outlawed the practice. But after the Taliban was ...
The customary sexual - and not only - abuse of young boys in Afghanistan - Children as young as 10 years old are dressed in women's clothes and turned into sex slaves for the country's elite ...
A call from Helmand on February 29, 2020, underscored the shock and uncertainty felt in Afghanistan over the deal.
One of the keys to the Taliban success was they offered an alternative. They said, “Look, the mujahedeen fought heroically to liberate your country but have now turned it into a war zone. We offer ...
While the Taliban emerged as a force in the 1990s Afghan ... the new government collapsed and the old mujahedeen commanders turned into warlords – with different factions in different regions ...