Anti-immigrant sentiment, concerns about militant groups in Central Asia, and a growing acceptance that the regime is unlikely to collapse anytime soon are allowing the Taliban to quietly make diplomatic inroads.

A Taliban crackdown to “prevent immorality” is spreading across Afghanistan, with more provinces losing access to fiber-optic internet after the country’s leader imposed a complete ban on the technolo

A new push to cut nationwide access to the digital world is taking Afghanistan back to the isolationist extremes of decades past

The emerging policy threatens to disrupt government services that had moved online in recent years and to stall humanitarian operations in Afghanistan. Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has ordered a phased shutdown of internet services across Afghanistan,