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• History, society (Afghanistan)

  Afghanistan’s shrinking horizons: ‘Women feel everything is finished’

  12 September, by GRAHAM-HARRISON Emma

  The Taliban claim to have changed, but the crackdown has begun for women across the country
  In two months, Parwana estimates she has crossed the threshold of her home perhaps four times. She used to leave early in the morning, for work that supported her entire family, and then go on to an (...)

• History, society (Afghanistan)

  20 years later – The Afghan view of 9/11: ‘This is the day the bad times started’

  11 September, by GRAHAM-HARRISON Emma, MAKOII Akhtar Mohammad

  While the Taliban’s opponents go back into exile, its footsoldiers celebrate victory over US 20 years on
  In Afghanistan 9/11 is remembered as a trigger for decades of war which this year have come full, grim circle. The Taliban who controlled the country and sheltered Osama bin Laden at the (...)

• History, society (Afghanistan)

  A War’s Epitaph: For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan

  26 August, by RISEN James

  In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, U.S.-backed Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum’s forces murdered hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners by jamming them into metal shipping containers and letting them suffocate. At the time, Dostum was on (...)

• History, society (Afghanistan)

  Afghanistan’s Tragedy – On the consequences of foreign military interventions

  1 July, by MOGHADAM Valentine

  AFGHANISTAN HAS BEEN in a state of chaos since at least the Taliban resurgence in 2006 and the entry of the Islamic State group (Daesh) more recently. Assaults have been made not just on Afghan police units and U.S. military targets but also on prisons, schools, funerals and maternity wards (...)

• History, society (Afghanistan)

  41^st Anniversary : Veracities of Afghanistan’s Saur Revolution in 1978

  25 April 2019, by KHAN Lal

  After more than eighteen years of imperialist aggression and occupation of Afghanistan, the US imperialists are losing their longest war in history. They are facing yet another shameful defeat after those in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Syria. Their frustration from this rout is evident in their (...)

• History, society (Afghanistan)

  Ideology and Electricity: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan

  17 April 2012, by PARENTI Christian

  In the teahouses and street stalls of Kabul, one sometimes sees the portrait of a stern, round-faced man with dark hair and a mustache. It is the visage of Muhammad Najibullah, the last president of communist Afghanistan. Najibullah joined the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) in (...)

• History, society (Afghanistan)

  Afghanistan: Andropov was right

  8 June 2011, by ALI Tariq

  Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 by Rodric Braithwaite, Profile, 417 pp, £25.00, March 2011, ISBN 978 1 84668 054 0
  A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan by Artemy Kalinovsky, Harvard, 304 pp, £20.95, May 2011, ISBN 978 0 674 05866 8 Rodric Braithwaite, British (...)