Pakistan launched airstrikes across Afghanistan following cross-border violence, resulting in four civilian deaths and threatening regional peace talks.

As regional powers, Russia, and Western nations engage the Taliban for trade and security, human rights advocates warn that outreach threatens domestic reforms.

Five years after the fall of Kabul, sweeping Taliban edicts have systematically erased Afghan women from public life, banning them from education, employment, and public speech.

Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghanistan's educational crisis has expanded to alter classrooms for boys and young men through increased religious instruction.