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Silence would mean accepting and surrendering to the Taliban’s power, writes one of these authors. Theirs are the voices of resistance.
In 2005, the Howard government introduced its controversial WorkChoices legislation. It would be a key factor in the government’s defeat in the 2007 election.
Four young Afghan men were given a Taliban warning for walking the streets dressed as Thomas Shelby from the TV hit show Peaky Blinders.
With Trump’s immigration crackdown intensifying, what factors are prompting people to leave their countries?
Pakistan cannot blame anyone but itself for the challenges it now faces: it nurtured and supported the Afghan Taliban for decades.
The type of buildings that are common in rural Afghanistan help explain why this earthquake was so deadly.
Afghans who have lost US work permits and protections from deportation fear persecution by the Taliban if they return to Afghanistan.
Russia and China have started to bring the Taliban in from the cold. The international community may soon have little leverage to pressure the group to change.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is meant to be the ‘collective voice’ of the Muslim world. Yet it has been toothless on the most important crises.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Taliban leaders it holds criminally responsible for the persecution of Afghan women and girls.
Critical questions need to be asked about which secrets are kept, by whom and why.
Superinjunctions are exceptionally rare and controversial, precisely because they run counter to the principle of open justice.
Foreign terrorism accounts for a miniscule portion of violence in the United States.
The deal that Trump left for his successor Joe Biden was a recipe for the disaster that followed.
The US has donated nearly US$4 billion to Afghanistan since the Taliban came into power. Gutting USAID will have enormous consequences for women and children.
During the first Trump administration, intelligence workers at many levels made political judgments about the information they assembled.
As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?
Ahmed al-Sharaa’s plans for Syria risk repeating past rebel mistakes. Negotiated, inclusive constitutional reform is key to Syrian stability and avoiding renewed conflict.
An Afghan women’s cricket team is set to play its first match in years. It could put pressure on the International Cricket Council to do more for Afghan women.
Top contributors
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Reader in Sociology, City St George's, University of London
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Fellow, Initiative for Peacebuilding, The University of Melbourne
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, School of History and Philosophy, UNSW
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Visiting Research Professor, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
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Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University
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Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
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PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Concordia University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Non-resident Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia