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Afghanistan

August 2026

  • A protester in Amsterdam holds up a placard denouncing the Taliban’s treatment of women

    Brief letters
    The decent way for countries to engage with the Taliban

  • A young boy with a goat and the mountains behind him

    TV review
    25 Years in Afghanistan review – the extraordinary life of an optimist

  • Photo of man being referred to as Hamid with face blurred, wearing army uniform

    Taliban threaten former Afghan police worker after MoD leak reveals identity

  • Guardian journalist Annie Kelly looks back at the statements that Taliban leaders made in 2021 and the reality of women's lives in Afghanistan today

    The promises the Taliban made to women, then broke – video explainer

    Video4:33

  • Rights and freedom
    Five years into Taliban rule, Afghanistan plunges into a state of collapse – visualised

  • double quotation markI feel guilt talking to those left behind in Afghanistan. While I enjoy freedom, they are prisoners

    Nelufar Hedayat

  • Concerns grow over increased global ties with Taliban in Afghanistan

  • Abbas fought the Taliban alongside US and Australian troops. Now exiled in Iran, he feels abandoned

  • Today in Focus
    The 21 million women and girls the world forgot – podcast

    Podcast31:08

  • Five years of Taliban rule
    ‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women

  • Five years of Taliban rule
    ‘Her face was beaten in’: how Taliban rule ushered in a new era of women being killed

  • How private schools could help Afghan girls – and justify their charitable status

  • Opinion
    double quotation markThey gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive

    Shabnam

  • double quotation markAfter five brutal years of Taliban rule, Afghan women and girls need our help – and I have a plan

    Gordon Brown

  • double quotation markDecades on from the US’s disastrous campaign in Afghanistan, Trump is making all the same mistakes

    Simon Tisdall

July 2026

  • An Afghanistan woman sits in sunlit countryside whilst a girl jumps across a river behind her.

    Snowy valleys, balloon bikes and a wild game of buzkashi: a different view of Afghanistan – in pictures

    As the son of Afghan refugees, Daniel Malikyar wanted to paint a picture of the country he knew, rather than the one he read about in news headlines
    Gallery12
  • Two people in raincoats wade through knee-deep floodwater on a submerged Dhaka street with shops and tangled overhead wires

    ‘We have lost everything’: extreme rainfall across Asia brings flash floods and typhoons

    From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge highlights devastating impact of climate breakdown

    • Weather tracker
      Weather tracker: Why Europe’s wildfires are proving so fierce and difficult to stop

    • Rescuers in Afghanistan search for missing and dead after flash floods destroy homes

    • Five years of Taliban rule
      ‘When she turns eight they will take her’: rising number of Afghan girls being sold into child marriage

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