The reinstatement of slavery in Afghanistan removes all doubt that the Taliban intend to subject Afghanistan to a hideously regressive form of government.

A full-blown conflict between Afghanistan’s Taliban and neighboring Pakistan seemed unthinkable when the hard-line Islamist group, a longtime ally of Islamabad, seized power in 2021 as international ...

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