Liberals are more concerned with “Islamophobia” than with the content of Islamist doctrine. It is they who are guilty of a profound failure of empathy.
Senior Taliban official Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai has reportedly left Afghanistan after publicly opposing the regime's ban on women's education.
No one wishes failure for the new Syria or strives to bring it about. Our region has grown weary of wars and conflict. These newcomers from extreme terrorist groups must now prove themselves.
This meeting between foreign ministers is the highest-level delegation publicized since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
Nearly 200,000 Afghans have been resettled in the US with SIVs or as refugees since 2021. Trump's victorious 2024 reelection campaign included promises of strict immigration policies.
The Taliban claimed the ICC should “not attempt to impose a particular interpretation of human rights on the entire world and ignore the religious and national values of people..."
The Afghanistan probe is one of the longest by ICC prosecutors and has been beset by legal and practical delays.
"We request the leaders of the Islamic Emirate to open the doors of education," the Taliban's acting deputy foreign minister said.
Yousafzai asked to "openly challenge and denounce the Taliban's oppressive laws" and for political leaders to support the addition of gender apartheid to crimes against humanity.
The statement from the Defence Ministry did not specify Pakistan but said the strikes were conducted "beyond the 'hypothetical line.'"
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