Al Jazeera, Nabi Roshan: Afghanistan’s Jon Stewart forced into exile, 8 June 2022 "While most entertainment and satirical TV shows have been pulled off the air by channels that are still operating within Afghanistan, Roshan and ...

Lynne O'Donnell, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan Regains Its Crown as Terror Central, 20 Apr 2022 "Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and ...

NME, Taliban bans ‘PUBG: Battlegrounds’ and TikTok in Afghanistan

"Both PUBG: Battlegrounds and TikTok have been banned in Afghanistan by the Taliban for “misleading the younger generation”"

This thread understandably picked up substantial traffic, although there is an underlying serious issue about the nature of authority in Afghanistan to contend with in Roh Yakobi's tweet (the accompanying thread details some of the replies)

I think he watches Coronation St. They all call ...

Eileen Guo, Technology Review, The code must go on: An Afghan coding bootcamp becomes a lifeline under Taliban rule, 30 Dec 2021

"In such dire circumstances, a coding bootcamp—a remnant of a brief period of techno-optimism in Afghanistan—may seem ...

A(nother) disturbing story from Afghanistan ...

Naseer Rahin, Vice, ‘I Was Completely Hopeless’: Kabul’s Secret Sex Workers Are Living in Fear

Nicolas Frank Böhmer, Modern Diplomacy, Lithium in Afghanistan: Gold or Dust?, 7 Dec 2021 "In response to the question above Lithium is not the new gold for Afghanistan since the preconditions are so questionable: The Taliban and ISIS-K dreams of a money ...

Lyse Doucet, with Mahfouz Zubaide and Esmatullah Kohsar Photography: Paula Bronstein, BBC News, A Love Letter to Kabul A powerful photo essay

Maryam Mursal, Rukshana Media, Weeks ago a teenager pleaded to the Taliban to open schools for girls. The group confirmed the schools in Herat can be opened from today, 6 Nov 2021 ...

BBC Radio 4, The Digital Human, Series 24, Encrypted "Aleks learns that while the Taliban were using WhatsApp to organise and disarm those who may have tried to resist their takeover of Afghanistan, many Afghans who were desperately trying to escape Kabul relied on WhatsApp to connect ...

Al Jazeera, Afghanistan’s girls learn, code ‘underground’ amid Taliban curbs "Fereshteh Forough, the CEO and founder of Code to Inspire (CTI) – Afghanistan’s first all-female coding academy – created encrypted virtual classrooms, uploaded course content online, and gave laptops and internet packages to about ...

TOLO News, Afghans Complain of High Priced, Low Quality Internet

"The Ministry of Communications and Technology demanded the telecommunication companies to accelerate the 4G services and other network activities."

Statement from Ashraf Ghani on his departure from Kabul:

BBC News, Ashraf Ghani: 'I apologise that I could not make it end differently'

"In a statement shared on Twitter on Wednesday, Mr Ghani said he had no choice but to leave the country in order to avoid widespread violence."

Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 'The Other Afghan Women', 6 September 2021

Brilliant. A must read. "More than seventy per cent of Afghans do not live in cities. In rural areas, life under the U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan allies became pure hazard; even ...

Al Jazeera, Taliban captures three more Afghan provincial capitals in a day

France ...

BBC News, Eid al-Adha prayers continue as rockets fired in Afghanistan

"Rockets could be heard exploding nearby during prayers in Afghanistan to mark the start of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha."

The National, Afghan women's worst fears realised as Taliban return

"A recent article on the Taliban’s website says it seeks women’s rights as understood by Islam. However, the group’s interpretation of Islam is questioned ...

Animator Fatima Mohammadi was killed in an attack on Hazara people in Afghanistan. Another underreported situation:

This artwork was made by Fatima Mohammadi who lost her life in an ongoing targeted attacks against people of Hazara ethnicity in Afghanistan.

Another young soul, ...

The Guardian, Afghans bury their dead after dozens of girls killed in school blasts

"A series of blasts outside the school during a peak holiday shopping period killed more than 50 people, mostly female students, ...

Al Jazeera, Afghan officials reverse ban on girls singing after outcry

#IAmMySong

"A ban on girls singing in public imposed by Afghan education ...

Al Jazeera, The female Afghan tech entrepreneurs inspiring each other

"Now 18, Somaya is the leader of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team – also known as the “Afghan Dreamers”, a name they gave themselves. All five girls in the ...

BBC News, Afghan war: Female TV workers 'shot dead by IS' in Jalalabad

"The three women killed in Jalalabad were aged between 18 and 20, and had recently finished high school. They worked in the dubbing department of the privately-owned Enikas TV station, said its head, Zalmai Latifi."

Guardian, 'I'd like to join Pixar one day': meet Afghanistan's first female animator

Instagram Sara Barackzay

"Born under Taliban rule, ...

PA/Evening Express, Islamic State claims responsibility for murder of female reporter in Afghanistan

"The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed a female TV ...

If you recall the images of the baby who survived an attack several months ago, then here's an update

“A symbol of resilience “ - baby Amina shot when she was 2 hours old & ⁦@BinaNajeeb⁩ who saved her legs & her life ...