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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2021
Taliban turning Afghanistan into narco-terrorist state
Afghanistan accounts for 85% of the global acreage under opium cultivation, making the Taliban the world's largest drug cartel.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2021
Diplomats dither while millions of people starve
Afghans are trapped between a radical Islamist group and a global community apparently content to sit back and let their aid-dependent country plunge into crisis.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 6, 2021
Baby handed to U.S. soldiers in chaos of Afghanistan airlift still missing
A U.S. government official familiar with the situation said the case had been flagged for all the agencies involved, including the U.S. bases and overseas locations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 28, 2021
Taliban allow girls to return to some high schools, but with big caveats
Officials insist that things will be different for girls and women from the last time the militants were in power.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Oct 20, 2021
As women flee Afghanistan, brain drain hits economy and girls' hopes
The Taliban say women will be allowed to work in accordance with Islamic law, but have not clarified exactly what this means.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 13, 2021
‘I never believed that would happen’: After 20 years of war, an abrupt end
Five Afghans speak about the sudden end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and the uncertainty that lies ahead.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2021
India’s Taliban problem
With the Taliban government desperately in need of patronage, China seems ideally suited to fill the breach.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 5, 2021
The intentions behind China’s ‘friendly’ policy toward the Taliban
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Beijing has taken a lead in involving the region in the group's future.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 29, 2021
The Taliban vowed no revenge. One Afghan family tells a different story.
'The Taliban said they will not punish anyone who had worked with the previous regime but they did the exact opposite in our case.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2021
A dishonorable retreat in Afghanistan
A dangerous possibility is that the fall of Kabul will make China even more confident of the U.S.' accelerating decline, and will thus step up its efforts to forcefully reunite with Taiwan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 21, 2021
In New Delhi's 'Little Kabul,' fear and uncertainty for Afghan residents
The Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan has left people from the war-torn country concerned for family they left behind and wondering what the future holds.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2021
Starvation is as much a threat to Afghan women as the Taliban
In an aid-dependent economy already in deep trouble, the removal of tens of thousands female workers, many supporting large families, will only add to those facing hunger.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2021
Can America learn from its defeat in Afghanistan?
The value of an independent commission to examine the U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal is that it would offer some insulation from the daily pressures of Washington politics.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Sep 16, 2021
Female athletes flee Afghanistan as Taliban bars women from sports
An Afghan national female soccer team and their relatives have crossed into Pakistan en route to Europe and the U.S., an official at the country’s soccer federation said, as local media reported they were fleeing from threats after the Taliban barred their participation in sports.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2021
Afghanistan’s forsaken gender
While those of us in advanced economies contemplate the excesses of our modern society, Afghan women face an acute threat of being plunged back into the dark ages.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2021
Afghan resistance in desperate need of world’s support
The anti-Taliban cause is both just and necessary as a dizzying array of terrorist organizations are already gathering in Afghanistan after the government's fall.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2021
Building a better world in the wake of the Afghanistan debacle
Instead of exporting war, countries such as the U.S. could export technology together with human capital, such as teachers and doctors, to help create a better world.

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