Atlas - Le Monde - EN : Afghanistan

18 september 15h49

For the US authorities, the Taliban are reliable partners’

Political scientist Olivier Roy explains why, a quarter of a century after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the US has no choice but to normalize its...

18 august 16h27

The hardest report I’ve ever done’: Photographing young girls sold by their parents in Afghanistan

The Visa pour l’Image festival in Perpignan, southern France, is exhibiting journalist Elise Blanchard’s photographs from her latest report in the...

07h31

My way of fighting is by giving women work’: Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship

Voices of Afghan Women’ (6 6). Paradoxically, one of the few rights women still have is the opportunity to start a business. Many have learned the...

18 september 15h49

The Taliban preach purity and morality, but rush to strip women in prison’: A land of terror for Afghan women

Voices of Afghan Women’ (5 6). In Afghanistan, the law now stands against women and girls. Two new decrees issued by the Taliban regime even legalize...

21 august 09h58

When we tell them pregnancies require regular medical checkups, they scoff’: Afghan women’s health is put at risk by the Taliban

Voices of Afghan Women’ (4 6). Only women can care for women, yet Afghanistan is no longer training female doctors, nurses, or midwives. As a result,...

15 august 07h25

Recognizing the courage of Afghan women

Five years after the Taliban seized power by force and began systematically erasing women from public life with extreme violence, what can justify...

24 march 18h03

Afghan women fight and invent strategies to survive’: A women’s radio station and underground schools offer glimmers of hope

Voices of Afghan Women’ (3 6). Radio Begum, ’a radio station made by women for women,’ is the only connection to the outside world for many Afghan...

18 march 17h33

Explosion at school in Afghanistan kills at least 42 children

The victims of Monday’s blast in Kabul were aged 9 to 14, according to the UN mission, UNAMA, which cited ’conflicting reports of either an attack or...

17 march 17h09

To remain silent on Afghanistan would be to abandon the women who seek recognition for their struggle’

Public figures including UN Women France President Sophie Pouget and Afghan Women of France President Chela Noori call for urgent action to support...

28 february 08h45

Gender apartheid’: How the Taliban have trampled women’s rights for five years

Voices of Afghan Women’ (2 6). Upon returning to power on August 15, 2021, the Taliban dismantled institutions, laws and services related to women’s...

We were petrified’: Afghan women on the tragic day the Taliban came back

Voices of Afghan Women’ (1 6). Five years after the Taliban returned to power and imposed their archaic version of Sharia law, our special...

Afghanistan’s Taliban break out of international isolation five years after returning to power

Neighboring capitals now engage with Kabul over regional trade routes, while American and European officials are negotiating with the regime in the...

Biden doomed himself to humiliation by embracing Trump’s Middle East legacy’

The fifth anniversary of the US defeat in Afghanistan in August 2021 serves as a reminder that former US president Joe Biden trapped himself in the...

Trump’s first term already foreshadowed the current debacle in the Middle East’

As early as 2020, the US president had weakened his country by capitulating to the Taliban, while Iran and its supporters were already stepping up...

In Afghanistan, as elsewhere, stories about drugs are also stories about power and society’

The Taliban has only been able to curb opium production in the country because of the regime’s deeply repressive nature.

Afghanistan announces release of detained US citizen

The Taliban government announced that researcher Dennis Coyle had arrived in the UAE on Tuesday, after first being reunited with his family in Kabul,...

Pakistan and Afghanistan announce pause in conflict for Eid al-Fitr

In separate statements, authorities in Islamabad and Kabul said they would respect a halt in increasingly deadly fighting following a request from...

Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of killing hundreds of civilians in Kabul strike

A Taliban government spokesman said that the Pakistani military’s airstrikes on Kabul were ’an act of inhumanity,’ following Monday’s strikes that...

Risk of open war between Afghanistan and Pakistan appears contained for now

In response to concerns voiced by their respective allies through diplomatic channels, the authorities in Kabul and Islamabad appeared aware of the...

Pakistan and Afghanistan escalate conflict, with unpredictable consequences

Islamabad launched airstrikes on Kabul, Kandahar, and southeastern Afghanistan on Friday in retaliation for an attack the previous day against...