Primary documents

State Department Comment on House Foreign Affairs Committee Afghanistan Review

U.S. Department of State OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON SEPTEMBER 9, 2024 The Department appreciates the Committee’s longstanding interest in Afghanistan policy, and we strongly believe in Congress’s independent role in shaping U.S. foreign policy. We remain committed to working with Congress on its oversight requests and advancing the interests of the American people. Since 2021,

The Taliban publish vice laws that ban women’s voices and bare faces in public

Associated Press August 23, 2024 ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue. The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said.

War Crimes in the First Two Decades of the Afghan Conflict: Republishing the UN Mapping Report

Kate Clark Afghanistan Analysts Network 15 Aug 2024 In 2004, a major report mapping the war crimes and human rights violations committed in Afghanistan between 1978 and 2001 was published by the United Nations before being swiftly taken down under political pressure, allegedly from then president Hamed Karzai, some of his ministers and foreign backers

Islamic Emirate Rejects Central Asia Concerns Over Drug Trafficking

By Naweed Samadi Tolo News 10 Feb 2024 Zabihullah Mujahid rejected the claims of drug trafficking out of Afghanistan, and called on the world to cooperate in the area. The spokesman of the Islamic Emirate said that since the return of the Islamic Emirate, a serious fight against narcotics has been carried out in Afghanistan, and

UN Security Council Resolution on Afghanistan: Just another ‘much ado about nothing’?

AAN Team Afghanistan Analysts Network 31 Dec 2024 The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution on the Independent Assessment on Afghanistan, which former Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Feridun Sinirlioğlu had put together. UNSC Resolution 2721 only passed after a month and a half of Security Council meetings, mainly held behind closed doors,

Afghanistan media guide

BBC News 27 Jan 2023 Afghanistan media outlets have come under severe pressure since the Taliban takeover Afghan media have faced difficulties since the Taliban took power in Kabul on 15 August 2021. Outlets have endured severe restrictions, an economic crisis and waning Western support. There is growing self-censorship and editorial appeasement of the Taliban.

UN RELEASES REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFGHANISTAN SINCE THE TALIBAN TAKEOVER

UNAMA UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN 20 Jul 2022 UN RELEASES REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFGHANISTAN SINCE THE TALIBAN TAKEOVER KABUL – The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today released a report (Human rights in Afghanistan: 15 August 2021 – 15 June 2022) outlining the human rights situation in Afghanistan over the

RAND: American Policy Toward the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Engage, Isolate, or Oppose by James Dobbins, Andrew Radin, Laurel E. Miller DOWNLOAD EBOOK FOR FREE Format File Size Notes PDF file 0.2 MB Technical Details » With the American military withdrawal, the Taliban’s seizure of control, and a developing humanitarian crisis, the United States faces a question of what policy it should pursue toward the Islamic