Hollywoodgate is a glimpse of the Taliban at work
This revelatory film follows two soldiers in Afghanistan during the country’s regime change.
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Hamish Falconer: “We will be forming a government under much harder conditions than 1997”
The Labour rising star on growing up with a father in Blair’s cabinet and his years as chief negotiator with…
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Tory Defence Committee chair could be ousted over “Taliban propaganda”
The Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood has published a widely ridiculed video praising the Afghan government.
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The Taliban’s Afghanistan: murder, repression and economic devastation
The de facto government remains an international pariah, but it's the Afghani people that suffer.
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Yalda Hakim’s Diary: Afghanistan’s freezing winter, secret schools for girls, and the crime of being a woman
After the Taliban took over I met many women who told me they had no intention of leaving – but…
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Stop feigning surprise over the Taliban university ban
We knew it was coming – Western politicians are engaged in meaningless posturing.
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Living standards in Afghanistan have collapsed under the Taliban
The cost of living, food security, female education and wages have all declined.
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Afghanistan after the fall
A year since the Taliban took Kabul, they have learned that they cannot shut out the West.
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Death of al-Qaeda leader in Kabul puts the Taliban on notice
The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri exposes tensions among Afghanistan’s rulers.
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Taliban condemn girls to a “lifetime of lockdown” by shutting schools
Shukria Barakzai saw the damage first-hand under the last regime when she ran secret lessons from her flat in Kabul.
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Afghan kidnappings leave families in the dark
Since the Taliban regained power, huge numbers have disappeared – including eight Britons and two Americans – with no recourse…
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Afghans who fled to Pakistan now find their lives blocked at every turn
Refugees from the country know they were lucky to escape the Taliban, but now find themselves homeless, stateless and broke.
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“We’re going to see death on a large scale”: Afghanistan under the Taliban this winter, with John Simpson
Afghanistan faces a humanitarian disaster, and the West must take some of the blame.
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Yogita Limaye’s Diary: The mercurial Taliban, selling children to survive, and the betrayal of Afghan women
In Kabul, a Taliban spokesman tells me girls were staying home from school of their own accord.
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Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Defining oneself by an identity is an impoverishment of what you are”
The French intellectual on culture wars and global crises.
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Can G20 leaders keep their promise to prevent economic collapse in Afghanistan?
Saving the country from economic ruin will be difficult without normalising the Taliban's hold on power.
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Afghanistan Withdrawal: the best of The New Statesman’s articles
Read all our reporting and analysis of the Taliban’s takeover and the UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Diary: Witnessing the last days of Ashraf Ghani’s Afghanistan
As Taliban forces enter Kabul, foreign correspondent Lynne O'Donnell reports on the horrors following in their wake.
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