Five years after the Taliban takeover, Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis is worsening as women and girls remain barred from education, work and public life.
An Afghan burqa-clad woman with a girl asks for alms at a road in Argo district of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on June 30, 2026.
Omer Abrar / AFP
As Afghanistan’s hardline Islamist movement marks five years back in power, the anniversary has drawn renewed global attention to a crisis that had faded from view.
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