Two years after the fall of Kabul, the Biden administration has failed to shake the Taliban's iron grip on Afghanistan.
Two years after the fall of Kabul, the Taliban retains an iron grip on power in Afghanistan. Promises by the international community to hold the new government to higher human rights standards than the regime dislodged by the U.S. invasion in 2001 have come to nothing.
The Taliban face no significant opposition that could topple them. They have avoided internal divisions by falling in line behind their ideologically unbending leader. They have kept a struggling economy afloat, in part by holding investment talks with capital-rich regional countries, even as the international community withholds formal recognition.
A banner ordering women to cover themselves with a hijab is pictured at a private university after the universities were reopened in Kabul on March 6, 2023. The image shows a faceless woman in a hijab and a woman with a face covered by a niqab. All over the country, women report feeling invisible, isolated, suffocated, living in prison-like conditions.
In this photo taken on December 15, 2022, a member of Taliban security adjusts balloons with his gun during a handover ceremony of newly built houses constructed by the United Nations refugee agency in Barmal district, Paktika province.
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