Human rights organizations have previously described Taliban actions in Panjshir as collective punishment. In 2023, Amnesty International stated that many individual acts by Taliban forces constituted war crimes and that, taken together, they amounted to the war crime of collective punishment.
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A man was shot dead by unidentified armed assailants in eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on Monday, local sources reported, amid a recent increase in mysterious killings and other violent crimes across the country.
Human rights organizations have previously described Taliban actions in Panjshir as collective punishment. In 2023, Amnesty International stated that many individual acts by Taliban forces constituted war crimes and that, taken together, they amounted to the war crime of collective punishment.
Thousands of families in a mainly Hazara neighborhood of Kabul face eviction, rent demands and the possible loss of their homes after a Taliban court declared the land beneath them state property.
On May 21, Zakia Ahmad, known as “River,” reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the first woman from Afghanistan to climb the world’s highest mountain. For River, Everest was never only about climbing a mountain.
“When you lock the gates of a school, you are not just closing a building; you are sealing the door to a family’s future,” says Zalfa Mohammadi, an education activist who has spent years witnessing the transformative power of a classroom.
U.S. immigration authorities have deported at least 104 Afghan nationals directly to Afghanistan, according to an analysis of federal removal data covering October 2022 to March 2026.
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