Film

The Politics of Love in Kabul

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Feb 20, 2026 Shahrbanoo Sadat’s Afghan rom-com “No Good Men” balances fiction and reality with incredible deftness. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

TD Original

Covert Classrooms and Invisible Incomes: How Afghan Women Are Resisting

Saeedullah Safi / Truthdig Nov 13, 2025 By forging creative and invisible networks that allow them to survive, they are finding a way to be free despite the Taliban bans. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Opinion

The Zombie War on Terror Is Upon Us

Branko Marcetic / Responsible Statecraft Oct 14, 2025 The al-Qaida and Taliban threats are long gone but the tools and weapons we created to fight them are finding more monsters to destroy. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Middle East

Why Trump Won’t Get Bagram Back

Tanya Goudsouzian / Responsible Statecraft Oct 6, 2025 While the Taliban have of course objected to handing over the former U.S. base, Russia and China would also have something to say. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Global Voices

Humanitarian Crisis as Millions of Afghans Made to Return

Salma Niazi / Truthdig Sep 5, 2025 Pakistan and Iran are deporting Afghans back to poverty, repression and uncertainty in one of the decade’s largest forced migrations. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Immigration

Tortured by the Taliban, Locked Up in the U.S.

Kate Morrissey / Capital & Main Jul 22, 2025 An Afghan national faces an increasingly opaque path toward the protection he was promised. His situation is chilling but not unique. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Middle East

Left Behind: Afghanistan Is Now an Environmental Hellhole

Tanya Goudsouzian, Zekria Barakzai / Responsible Statecraft Apr 21, 2025 What did we think nearly 50 years of war and neglect was going to do to the country? Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Film

The Limits of Being a Fly on the Wall

Siddhant Adlakha / Truthdig Jul 18, 2024 With unprecedented access to the Taliban, the documentary “Hollywoodgate” makes promises it can’t keep. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Middle East

Confronting Climate Change in Afghanistan

Ruchi Kumar / Undark Mar 13, 2023 Confronting climate change—and the Taliban—in Afghanistan. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Will the Afghanistan Peace Deal Work?

By Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Mar 13, 2020 The much-awaited US-Taliban agreement could finally end the longest U.S. war, but an end to violence is not assured. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Is the U.S. Really Getting Out of Afghanistan?

Staff / Truthdig Mar 6, 2020 President Trump may have surrendered to the Taliban, but as Truthdig columnist Danny Sjursen notes, that may not amount to the end of the conflict. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Trump’s Afghanistan Deal Has Nothing to Do With Peace

Marjorie Cohn / Truthdig Mar 5, 2020 A closer look at the Trump administration's agreement with the Taliban reveals all the president's concerned with is bragging rights. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )