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Taliban Torture Civilians, Demand Cash for Weapons They Don’t Have

M. Muradi no longer wants to return to his home in Malistan district of Ghazni province. The elderly man was forced to leave his home and seek refuge in Kabul a few months ago after spending two weeks in Taliban custody, where he says he was subjected to relentless torture. He now lives with his daughter in Kabul, while his elderly wife and two other daughters remain in Malistan.

October 23, 2026

Taliban’s Ongoing Crackdown in Panjshir: Civilians Recount Arrests, Torture and Forced Displacement

October 13, 2026

From Homeowners to Tenants: How the Taliban Is Taking Control of Kabul’s Omid Sabz Township

October 12, 2026

Territorial Control Without Governance: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the Crisis of Legitimacy

Moscow Format Talks End Without Joint Statement Amid Taliban-Pakistan Dispute

From Homeowners to Tenants: How the Taliban Is Taking Control of Kabul’s Omid Sabz Township

Afghan National Sentenced to 35 Years in US Prison for Sexually Abusing Minors

Taliban Detain Female Poet in Northeastern Afghanistan Over Critical Poems

Clashes Erupt Between Taliban and Pakistani Border Forces in Southeastern Afghanistan

Pakistan Declares Emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as Border Clashes Kill 12, Army Says

Pakistani Media Reports Deaths of Afghan Taliban Fighters in Border Clashes

Anti-Taliban NRF Claims Taliban Intelligence Deputy Killed in Northeastern Afghanistan

News

October 31, 2026

Local Figure Shot Dead in Central Afghanistan Amid Surge in Mysterious Killings

A local figure was shot dead by an unidentified gunman inside his home in Afghanistan’s central Daikundi province on Friday evening, local sources told KabulNow, amid a recent surge in mysterious killings and other violent crimes across the country.

October 31, 2026

US Lawmakers Criticize Trump Administration’s Plan to Deport Afghans, Warn of Taliban Persecution

October 31, 2026

Child Killed, Four Injured After Shell Fired from Pakistan Explodes in Eastern Afghanistan

October 30, 2026

Taliban Detains Six More Residents in Panjshir as Arbitrary Arrests Continue

October 30, 2026

Millions in Afghanistan Lack Shelter and Warm Clothes as Winter Approaches, UN Warns

Opinion

October 12, 2026

Territorial Control Without Governance: Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the Crisis of Legitimacy

September 25, 2026

The International Criminal Court should recognize that Hazara women are persecuted both as women and as Hazaras

September 19, 2026

Beyond the Law: The Informal Institutions Shaping Afghanistan

September 10, 2026

Afghanistan and the Architecture of Enduring Poverty

Women

October 30, 2026

UN Rights Expert Warns Against Normalization of Taliban Repression in Afghanistan

October 27, 2026

Daughters of Taliban Members Attend Secret Schools in Afghanistan, Italian Aid Worker Says

October 27, 2026

Man Kills Wife, Dies by Suicide in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province

Special Reports

October 30, 2026

Taliban Torture Civilians, Demand Cash for Weapons They Don’t Have

M. Muradi no longer wants to return to his home in Malistan district of Ghazni province. The elderly man was forced to leave his home and seek refuge in Kabul a few months ago after spending two weeks in Taliban custody, where he says he was subjected to relentless torture. He now lives with his daughter in Kabul, while his elderly wife and two other daughters remain in Malistan.

October 23, 2026

Taliban’s Ongoing Crackdown in Panjshir: Civilians Recount Arrests, Torture and Forced Displacement

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.

October 13, 2026

From Homeowners to Tenants: How the Taliban Is Taking Control of Kabul’s Omid Sabz Township

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.

May 29, 2026

From Afghanistan to Everest: Zakia Ahmad’s Historic Ascent Offers Hope to Afghan Women

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.

May 5, 2026

Denied School and Work, Women in Afghanistan Build a Quiet Resistance

“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.

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