Each week, more than 50 figures from the world of faith engage in a conversation about an aspect of religion. ... Eight years after the United States attacked Afghanistan, fighting continues.

(Open Doors) — A year after the Taliban takeover, life in Afghanistan for Christians and other religious minorities is a hellscape. (RNS) — On Aug. 30, 2021, the last U.S. military planes left ...

FILE - Afghan girls attend a religious school that remained open since the 2021 Taliban takeover, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug 11, 2022. The country’s Taliban rulers ordered women nationwide to ...

Afghanistan is often in the global spotlight, and typically for less than desirable reasons. As someone who has traveled there firsthand, I want to share some super interesting but often ...

Wood: Religion in Afghanistan. Wood: ... The last soldiers of the United States left Afghanistan today, August 31, 2021. The Taliban is now in position to form a government to rule the country.

In Afghanistan, the Hazara Shias were part of an alliance opposing the Taliban as it spread in the 1990s. The Afghan Taliban massacred hundreds of Hazara civilians, singling out Shias, in its ...

Despite the Taliban's military victory, it remains to be seen whether they will be able to impose their extremely conservative religious view of society on the Afghan people in the long run.