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AFGHANISTAN-SOCIETY-ART

Afghanistan’s Art Scene Weighs in On Taliban Move to Ban Images of Living Things

Despite the Taliban’s attempts to erase the nation’s cultural identity, Afghan artists are hopeful that art can outlive even the most oppressive regimes.
By Tamara Davison

Afghanistan Antiquities Will Face U.S. Import Restrictions Through 2026

After last year's Taliban takeover, major concerns have been raised regarding looted antiquities appearing on the market.
By Helen Holmes

The National Museum of Afghanistan Has Taliban Guards and a Faulty Generator

Artists in Afghanistan also recently published an open letter begging international leaders for help.
By Helen Holmes

American Art Was Evacuated During the Taliban’s Takeover of Afghanistan

By Helen Holmes

What Are the Taliban’s Plans for Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage?

By Helen Holmes

The Taliban’s Kabul Takeover Poses a Huge Threat to Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage

By Helen Holmes
American Taliban John Walker Lindh

Despite American Taliban’s Prison Release, Questions Linger Over Violations of His Rights

By Harmon Leon

This Ramadan, ISIS May Be Down but They’re Not Out

By Bridget Johnson

The Sun Is Shining, Birds Are Singing, and the Taliban Launched a Spring Offensive

By Bridget Johnson

Are Al-Qaeda and ISIS About to Form a Terrorist Supergroup?

By Bridget Johnson
Surrendering Taliban militants stand with their weapons in Herat, Afghanistan.

Russia Doesn’t ‘Solve’ Terrorism—It Helps It

By Bridget Johnson
President Donald Trump chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on November 11, 2017.

Putin’s Strategy of Global Tension

By John R. Schindler
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis at the Pentagon on August 8, 2017.

Taliban Rockets Targeting Defense Secretary James Mattis Pelt Kabul Airport

By Les Neuhaus
JERSEY CITY, NJ - SEPTEMBER 6: A man runs through the Empty Sky 9/11 Memorial in Liberty State Park in front of lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City on September 6, 2017 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

How 9/11 Changed America: For Better and for Worse

By John R. Schindler
U.S. soldiers keep watch near the wreckage of their vehicle at the site of a Taliban suicide attack in Kandahar on August 2, 2017.

Trump’s Fantastically Vague Afghanistan Strategy Is a Moot Point

By John A. Tures
Malala Yousafzai.

With Malala’s Admission to Oxford, Pakistani Taliban’s Fears Realized

By Bridget Johnson
Malala Yousafzai.

Malala Yousafzai Graduates High School—and Finally Tweets for the First Time

By John Bonazzo
A Kurdish fighter walks by a wall bearing a drawing of the flag of the Islamic State (IS) group in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, in the Nineveh Province, on November 13, 2015. Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani announced the "liberation" of Sinjar from the Islamic State group in an assault backed by US-led strikes that cut a key jihadist supply line with Syria. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED / AFP / SAFIN HAMED

First American Death in Syria fighting against ISIS

By Bridget Johnson
Child Abuse

The Month in Weird: November’s Best Avant-Garde Concerts

By Brad Cohan
Afghan protesters chant anti-government slogans as they march during a demonstration against Taliban militants and the kidnapping of civilians in the northeast, at Shar-e-Naw Park in Kabul on June 17, 2016. Hundreds of Afghans staged a protest in the city of Kabul on June 17, over recent kidnappings of civilians in northeastern Afghanistan by Taliban insurgents. / AFP / WAKIL KOHSAR

Victory in Afghanistan Impossible Without Calling Taliban Terrorists

By Bridget Johnson
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (US Army via Getty)

‘Serial’ Season Two Premiere Recap: The Fog of War

By Sean T Collins
In this photograph taken on July 5, 2015, Afghan girls who fled from Kot district of the eastern Nangarhar' province, following threats from the Islamic State group to leave their homes, look around a corner next to their temporary homes in Jalalabad. Authorities said more than 250 families had moved from Kot district of the eastern province to Jalalabad, with representatives of the displaced families telling AFP that Islamic State fighters had ordered families whose members were working for the government or Afghan National Security Forces to leave their homes. AFP PHOTO / Noorullah Shirzada (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)

Shocking Behind-the-Scenes Footage of ISIS Recruiting Children Warriors

By Michael Sainato

Experimental Music Finds a New Home in Ridgewood

By Brad Cohan

Hating Women Was His Disease

By Nina Burleigh
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