The BBC's Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet, returns to Afghanistan to report on the state of the country after five years of Taliban rule. She also brings us an interview with Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. Later, we hear from the American four-star general David Petraeus, who led US forces in Afghanistan for a year.

Five years of Taliban rule, what has changed? On the fifth anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan, Isobel Yeung reports on what life is like for women and children. New figures from Save the Children reveal that nearly one in ten children under the age of five is suffering from acute malnutrition.

Five years after regaining power, the hard-line Islamist regime has formalized a women’s rights rollback in a sprawling penal code that experts say makes it almost impossible for women to escape abuse.

Tired of war, Afghans have welcomed peace. Cities which used to ring to the blasts of suicide-bombers feel surprisingly calm. “This is the second summer that birds have returned to Kabul,” says a former government official, pointing up to the trees in his garden.

In an interview, Afghanistan’s foreign minister called on the U.S. to reopen its embassy and invest in the country — a near-impossible sell for now, analysts and former diplomats say. By Elian Peltier Elian Peltier, the Times’s Afghanistan bureau ...

Photographer Daniel Malikyar is using his project titled Afghanistan to counter the way the country is typically seen through headlines of war, conflict and the Taliban's takeover.

August 15, 2026 will mark five years since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Over the last five years, the Taliban’s increasingly draconian policies have made Afghanistan one of the world’s gravest human rights crises,

Mr. Baheer, who teaches civic engagement to Afghan students and advocates education for women and girls, wrote from Kabul, Afghanistan. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The mayor for Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province has been killed in an explosion, officials said, the second high-ranking official of the Taliban administration to be the target of deadly attacks in the region in the past two weeks.

Afghanistan’s Taliban have entrenched one of the world’s worst human rights crises and systematically dismantled the rights of women and girls since taking power five years ago.

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