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Pakistani authorities have attributed the rise in terrorist activities to the Taliban’s ascension to power in neighboring Afghanistan two years ago. [read post]
14 Oct 2023, 5:53 pm by Michael C. Dorf
 What was true of a much smaller scale military operation in 2009 is even more true today.For my mostly American audience, here's another way to think about the issue: The Taliban's refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden after 9/11 gave the U.S. the authority under the law of war to use military force against al Q'aeda and the Taliban in response. [read post]
12 Oct 2023, 5:50 am by Saskia Brechenmacher
A new U.N. report and accompanying event also drew attention to the grave violations of women’s rights in Afghanistan, including by labeling the Taliban’s actions gender apartheid. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 5:55 am by Mariana Budjeryn
For all the blood and treasure poured into the fight over two decades, the United States could not vanquish the Taliban and, in the end, withdrew, but not before more lives, U.S. and Afghan, were lost unnecessarily. [read post]
7 Oct 2023, 3:28 pm by Steven Calabresi
Trump's foreign policy "experience" is in signing a peace treaty with the Taliban and freeing thousands of their jailed members from U.S. overseas prisons so they could go on to topple the democratic government of Afghanistan. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 8:19 am by Sareta Ashraph
The Taliban seeks to maintain control over a subset of society systematically subjugated for their benefit and survival. [read post]
4 Oct 2023, 5:50 am by Brian Finucane
Views of the Committee The Taliban and Iran-backed groups During the hearing, HFAC Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) argued that a new AUMF should explicitly apply to both the Taliban and unspecified Iran-backed groups. [read post]
3 Oct 2023, 2:00 am by Seán Binder
However, the Taliban has offered some militants a haven from which they regrouped. [read post]
2 Oct 2023, 6:29 am by Marzia Marastoni
The Taliban were called upon to reopen schools and allow girls to receive an education. [read post]
” Suspicions from state officials have also been directed towards the Islamic State – Khorasan (IS-K) and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), both of whom have been allegedly involved in previous attacks. [read post]
In early September, Human Rights Watch also released a report on the Taliban’s continuing gender-based crimes and called for the international community to hold the Taliban’s government accountable for gender persecution. [read post]
26 Sep 2023, 5:55 am by Tess Bridgeman
Second, the group must be a co-belligerent with al-Qa’ida or the Taliban in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. [read post]
25 Sep 2023, 6:05 am by Brian Finucane
Do you agree that the term “harbored” in the 2001 AUMF refers only to the Taliban, who were known to have harbored al Qa’ida at the time of the 9/11 attacks? [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 9:39 pm by Ilya Somin
Most recently, I urged the passage of the Afghan Adjustment Act, to give permanent residency to Afghans who fled to the US after the Taliban seized control of their county.The post Biden Expands Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans in the United States appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
18 Sep 2023, 6:05 am by Brian Finucane
 For example, in reporting U.S. operations in Afghanistan during the first half of 2020 (prior to the U.S. withdrawal), the report states: (U) The following are the organizations in Afghanistan during this reporting period against which the U.S. military used force pursuant to the 2001 AUMF: (1) al-Qa’ida; (2) the Taliban, (3) the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS); and (4) certain other terrorist or insurgent groups affiliated with al-Qaida or the Taliban in… [read post]
18 Sep 2023, 5:55 am by Oona A. Hathaway
(Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of our Ending Perpetual War Symposium. [read post]
The post Afghanistan NGO working with the UN to free workers detained by the Taliban appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 9:05 pm by Narintohn Luangrath
Two years ago, the Taliban seized Kabul and ousted the U.S. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 2:13 am by Seán Binder
  Zhao Sheng, China’s new ambassador to Afghanistan, was welcomed by the Taliban in Kabul yesterday. [read post]