Christina Goldbaum contributed reporting. Special thanks to Susan Lee, Kiana Hayeri and Fahim Abed. The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, […]
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Taiba estaba siendo perseguida por los hombres que había puesto tras las rejas. Las amenazas de muerte, dijo, se produjeron mientras los estadounidenses se retiraban de Afganistán y los talibanes marchaban por todo su país. En medio del caos, las puertas de las celdas se abrieron de par en par, liberando a los violadores y […]
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Taiba was being hunted by the men she had put behind bars. The death threats came as the Americans withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban marched across her country, she said. In the chaos, cell doors were flung open, freeing the rapists and abusers she had helped send to prison. “We will find you,” the […]
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Biden administration extends temporary fix for Afghan refugees in US | The Hill Skip to content The Safi family celebrates Eid by taking family photographs on the National Mall, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The family was evacuated from Afghanistan and is trying to make a new life in the […]
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In a rare show of unity, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning the Taliban’s discrimination against women and girls in Afghanistan and called for the country’s leadership to swiftly reverse policies banning education, employment and equal public participation of women and girls. The resolution, co-sponsored by over 90 countries, received […]
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WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible for the suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, four senior American officials said on Tuesday. The administration on Monday began calling relatives of the […]
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SABZAK PASS, Afghanistan — The hotel is perched on the side of a mountain blanketed in snow. The ice-slicked road outside is treacherous. It stretches for miles in either direction through jagged peaks as it winds around the edges of cliffs and dips past piles of boulders left over from frequent rockslides. It’s 6:30 a.m., […]
Read MoreLord Miles YouTube screengrab. The Taliban has detained three British nationals in Afghanistan, including infamous edgelord shitposter “Lord” Miles Routledge. With this news comes a good time to revisit Routledge’s story since he burst onto the scene as a “war-tourist” who barely escaped Afghanistan during the fall of Kabul in 2021. After fleeing the country, […]
Read MoreMiles Routledge (pictured) was airlifted out of Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover in 2021, and posted videos of his experience on Facebook and 4Chan. Photo: Facebook Three U.K. nationals are being held in Taliban custody—among them an infamous 23-year-old YouTuber who “[goes] to the most dangerous places on Earth for fun”—according to a humanitarian NGO […]
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The last lunch for the last president of Afghanistan was vegetable fritters, salad and steamed broccoli. Nasrullah, the head chef at the presidential palace in Kabul, fried the fritters and steamed the vegetable himself. He tasted it all to make sure it was good — it was, although steamed broccoli has a […]
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QADIS, Afghanistan — When the temperatures plunged far below freezing in Niaz Mohammad’s village last month, the father of three struggled to keep his family warm. One particularly cold night, he piled every stick and every shrub he had collected into their small wood stove. He scavenged for trash that might burn, covered the windows […]
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Scattered across a neighborhood in central Kabul are the ruins of another empire come and gone from Afghanistan. Tattered sandbags and piles of discarded barbed wire. Metal hulls of tank traps sitting unused on the side of the road. Red-and-white metal barriers, once lowered to stop vehicles at checkpoints manned 24/7, permanently pointing toward the […]
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In the nine years that he led Pakistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf sometimes called himself a “tightrope walker” — someone who could balance opposing forces, or straddle Pakistan’s dizzying political and ideological divides. Contradictions abounded. Mr. Musharraf was the darling of the West who played footsie with the Taliban; he was the whiskey-swilling liberal who made […]
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US visa restrictions leveled on Taliban officials over repression of women, girls | The Hill Skip to content The State Department is placing additional visa restrictions on certain current and former Taliban members over the regime’s repression of girls and women in Afghanistan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a Wednesday statement that the […]
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