Who are IS-K and what do they want?
The terrorist group behind the Kabul airport attack has long-standing differences with the Taliban.
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Explosions at Kabul airport: what we know so far
Western intelligence agencies had warned of an “imminent, credible, lethal threat” of a terrorist attack.
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What will happen to the people left behind in Afghanistan?
A largely untold horror is unfolding at the Afghan-Pakistan border as people gather to flee but with little or no…
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The Afghanistan debacle has exposed the hollowness of Boris Johnson’s foreign policy
Having spent his entire life fantasising about being Winston Churchill, the PM now resembles Neville Chamberlain.
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Elif Shafak’s Diary: Publishing heroes, Afghanistan’s forsaken women, and the lessons of Turkey’s autocratic turn
Feminists from Turkey are especially alert to what is happening in Afghanistan. For us, the rise of fundamentalism is an existential…
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Personal story: I am Hazara – and I fear for my persecuted people
In 1998 the Taliban massacred 2,000 Hazara people, long the victims of sectarian violence. In my mountains and in my…
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Lyse Doucet’s Kabul notebook: A dystopian airfield, and the Afghans leaving everything behind
As thousands depart with their life in a piece of hand luggage, Afghanistan feels like a nation emptying of some of its…
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The Afghanistan crisis has exposed Global Britain’s delusions of grandeur
Airy assumptions of British exceptionalism have not survived their first contact with reality.
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