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Afghanistan
Afghan Children Are Suffering in the U.S. Immigration System
By Neha Desai, Diane de Gramont, and Leecia Welch
Afghanistan, One Year On From U.S. Withdrawal
By Sanya Mansoor
Q&A: Filmmaker Ariana Delawari on Afghanistan's Future
By Justine Simons
U.S. Rules Out Releasing $3.5 Billion to Afghanistan
By Courtney McBride/Bloomberg
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Afghanistan
Biden’s Decision To Quit Afghanistan Is Still the Right Call
The Taliban have crushed women’s rights and a humanitarian crisis has worsened, but the U.S. war was a hopeless exercise.
By Daniel DePetris
August 15, 2022
Stories of Afghan Women Around the World
TIME partnered with Rukshana Media to highlight the stories of women who left Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power.
By Edward Felsenthal
August 11, 2022
“War Is Betrayal.” Coming to Terms With America's Disastrous Departure from Afghanistan
What does the Afghanistan debacle mean for America's veterans and those we left behind?
By Phil Klay
August 10, 2022
U.S. and Taliban Discuss Unlocking Some Afghan Reserves
Talks to unlock $3.5 billion in reserves come as the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan deteriorates
By Philip J. Heijmans/Bloomberg
July 28, 2022
Afghan Women Pushed Out of Work Under Taliban
'Everybody knows that the Taliban are against women working. We go to work with fear, and we come back home with fear,' one woman tells TIME
By Zahra Nader
May 17, 2022
U.S. and Taliban Discuss Security Concerns in Doha
It's their first direct talks since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August
By Eduard Gismatullin and Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg
October 11, 2021
Exclusive: Afghan Governor's Narrow Escape From the Taliban
Mazari is alive, well, and at an undisclosed U.S. location. She talks to TIME in an exclusive interview
By Zakarya Hassani and Robyn Huang
September 14, 2021
What to Know About Taliban Leader Mullah Akhund
Experts say Akhund was the compromise choice
By Eloise Barry
September 9, 2021
Far Fewer Female Journalists in Kabul After Taliban: Report
That's a precipitous drop from the 700 women journalists working in 2020
By Amy Gunia
September 2, 2021
Will China Fare Any Better Than the U.S. in Afghanistan?
China hopes to fill the political void, but Afghanistan isn't called the “graveyard of empires” for nothing
By Charlie Campbell / Shanghai
August 30, 2021
Does ISIS-K Pose a Threat to the U.S.?
The attack raises questions about whether Islamist terrorist groups will yet again find safe haven in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
By Abhishyant Kidangoor
August 27, 2021
Kabul Airport Attack: 60 Afghans, 12 U.S. Troops Killed
More than 140 Afghans were wounded, an Afghan official said
By SAYED ZIARMAL HASHEMI, RAHIM FAIEZ, LOLITA C. BALDOR and JOSEPH KRAUSS/AP
August 26, 2021
Afghan Teacher on Protecting Girls Living Under Taliban Rule
'There are some things that you give up on and there are things that you just don't. Girls’ education right now is that red line'
By Abhishyant Kidangoor
August 26, 2021
What Afghanistan’s Women Stand to Lose
'All that I have worked for, all of my dreams, have become zero,' says Lida, an anti-corruption prosecutor
By Zahra Nader and Amie Ferris-Rotman
August 20, 2021
I Returned to Afghanistan 20 Years Ago to Help My Country. I’m Not Leaving Now
All is not yet lost in Afghanistan, writes a veteran political activist
By Anonymous
August 19, 2021
How One Nonprofit Is Attempting to Help LGBTQ Refugees Fleeing Afghanistan
Thousands of people have attempted to flee Afghanistan this week as Taliban forces gained control of the country, culminating in the capital city of Kabul on Aug. 15. At least 400,000 Afghans have been forcibly...
By Madeleine Carlisle
August 18, 2021
Europe Sees a Migration Crisis in the Making in Afghanistan. Have the Lessons of the 2015 Surge Been Learned?
European diplomats and leaders greet the prospect of refugees with a mix of compassion and fear
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson / The Hague
August 18, 2021
Afghans in Pakistan Fear for Refugees Fleeing Taliban
“Even after 40 years, nothing has changed in Afghanistan," says one refugee in Pakistan. "Fear, hunger, displacement, and uncertainty are our destiny."
By Sabrina Toppa and Zia ur Rehman/Karachi, Pakistan
August 18, 2021
The U.S. Offered My Family a Home After the Vietnam War. It Must Do the Same for Those Fleeing Afghanistan
The story and images are all too familiar. American troops withdrawing after several decades, cities falling, a president fleeing, chaotic airports, helicopters hovering over embassies, families desperate to get out in any way they can....
By Aimee Phan
August 17, 2021
Afghan Americans Scramble to Help Family Back Home
While their neighbors argued about political blame and long-term consequences, for Afghan Americans the tragic scenes overseas are personal.
By Vera Bergengruen
August 17, 2021
How You Can Help People in Afghanistan
The UN estimates 18 million Afghans need urgent humanitarian aid. Here's how you can contribute
By Eloise Barry
August 17, 2021
Girls Education in Afghanistan at Risk from U.S. Withdrawal
It was one of the key success stories of the U.S.-led intervention. Can it survive the withdrawal?
By Atefa Alizada and Amie Ferris-Rotman
July 7, 2021
How a Rising Female Minister Is Fighting to Dismantle Afghanistan's Patriarchy
Afghanistan’s newly-appointed deputy women’s minister Hosna Jalil is only 28, but she has made huge progress
By Charlie Faulkner / Kabul
March 8, 2021
How Poetry Societies Are Giving Women in Afghanistan a Voice During Coronavirus Lockdown
On a frosty February morning in Kabul, Lima Aafshid’s face glows in the pale blue light of her smartphone. She is reciting the words of 13th century Afghan poet Jalaluddin Rumi. Speaking in Dari, her...
By Lynzy Billing
July 10, 2020
Maternity Ward Attack Underscores the Dangers Afghan Women Face
Published in partnership with The Fuller Project, a non-profit newsroom that reports on issues impacting women. When Fawzia Rawof heard gunfire and screams, she knew there were only three options: run, hide—or die. The doctor...
By Sophia Jones
May 19, 2020
Veterans Have Mixed Feelings to U.S.-Taliban Peace Deal
Most veterans of the 18-year war in Afghanistan wouldn't have predicted this was how the fightback after the attacks of 9/11 would end: with the U.S. President calling the conflict a waste of American blood...
By Kimberly Dozier
March 9, 2020
Trump's Disgraceful Taliban Deal
There is a difference between peace and retreat. The Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban represents a full retreat. It’s an agreement that most Republicans would deplore if a Democrat president made the deal, and...
By David French
March 3, 2020
The Right Peace for Afghanistan
As we take the first major, halting steps toward a peace agreement in Afghanistan, all I can remember is how we got there in the first place. On 9/11, I was a newly promoted one-star...
By James Stavridis
March 2, 2020
Ready For Peace with the Taliban
On September 26, 1996, the Taliban captured Kabul. I was a junior staffer at the Afghan Ministry of Defense. My job was mainly liaising with foreign and local media, international aid organizations and the small...
By Amrullah Saleh
February 28, 2020
What Peace in Afghanistan Might Mean
Having fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I am often asked what I think distinguished the two wars from one another. The answer is imagination, and I believe this is the critical element upon which...
By Elliot Ackerman
February 21, 2020
A U.S. Plane Crashed in Afghanistan. Why So Many Believed a CIA Chief Was On It.
The wreckage of a U.S. military plane that crashed and burned in a snowy mountainous region in Afghanistan on Monday was still fresh when Iranian state TV ran a story claiming a top CIA officer...
By Kimberly Dozier
January 31, 2020
All Americans Bear the Blame for the Failed Afghanistan War
In New York Times Co. vs. United States, the landmark 1971 case which permitted the publication of the Pentagon Papers, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in his majority opinion wrote, “Only a free and unrestrained...
By Elliot Ackerman
December 10, 2019
Will Trump Close the Deal to End Afghanistan's Long War?
President Donald Trump had barely been in Afghanistan for a few hours on Nov. 28 when he made three bold declarations. In coming days, Trump said, the Taliban would stop their attacks and stalled peace...
By Kimberly Dozier
December 5, 2019
Trump Visits U.S. Troops in Afghanistan, Touts Peace Talks
The president greeted U.S. soldiers over a turkey dinner before meeting with Afghanistan's leader
By Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg
November 28, 2019
Koch-Backed Groups Launch Campaign to End War in Afghanistan
Earlier this month, Trump scrapped secret peace talks with the Taliban
By Philip Elliott
September 18, 2019
How Trump's 'Dare Me' Foreign Policy Is Faring
With the Taliban talks collapse, it's worth asking whether Trump's approach has proved better at solving the world's problems
By Brian Bennett
September 10, 2019
Pompeo Declined to Sign Afghan Deal
The deal doesn't ensure several crucial things, those familiar with the discussions tell TIME
By Kimberly Dozier
September 4, 2019
I Served 10 Tours in Afghanistan. It’s Time for Us to Leave
On the evening of July 15, 1979, a solemn and weary President Jimmy Carter sat in the Oval Office and addressed the nation about what he termed a “fundamental threat to American democracy.” Known historically...
By Donald C. Bolduc
August 30, 2019
U.S. Close to Peace Deal With Taliban
American troops could leave Afghanistan by November 2020, but hurdles remain and some critics are skeptical
By Kimberly Dozier/Washington
August 8, 2019
'Education Is Under Fire' in Afghanistan, the U.N. Says
Close to half of all school-aged children in Afghanistan do not attend school, the UNICEF report said
By Hillary Leung
May 28, 2019
Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan
President Richard Nixon promised Americans that the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar...
By Thurston Clarke
May 24, 2019
'We Won't Be Silenced,' Afghan Female Musicians Tell Taliban
"Women can’t go back to the dark days," says the country's first female conductor
By Eltaf Najafizada / Bloomberg
April 18, 2019
How Bowe Bergdahl May End Up Being the Key to Peace with the Taliban
In the summer of 2018, the Trump Administration began quietly reaching out to the Taliban to strike a peace deal in Afghanistan. With little apparent sense of irony, President Trump pursued negotiations through the same...
By Michael Ames
March 27, 2019
U.S. Military Ends Failed Counter-Drug Campaign in Afghanistan
The military’s strategy became the latest high-priced failure to slow endemic poppy cultivation and drug trafficking in Afghanistan
By W.J. Hennigan
February 21, 2019
Trump vs. Pelosi
One day after she essentially disinvited him from delivering his State of the Union
By Alana Abramson
January 17, 2019
Why Afghanistan Is Still the Worst Place in the World to Be a Woman
Meet the women fighting for justice in the brutal war against Afghanistan's women
By Lauren Bohn
December 8, 2018
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