The Taliban said its courts publicly flogged nine people in western and eastern Afghanistan this week, continuing the use of corporal punishment under the group’s rule. According to statements issued on Tuesday by the Taliban Supreme Court, a primary court in Herat province flogged eight people on Monday, January 5, on charges of producing, buying and selling alcoholic beverages. In […]

The United States’s attack on Venezuela has raised questions about domestic checks on power and signaled a challenge to international law and longstanding norms of sovereignty and the use of force. The priority given to securing U.S. access to Venezuelan oil and other resources further underscores the material interests underlying the operation. Combined with President Donald Trump’s open flirtation with […]

Tensions between local residents and the mining company have continued in northeastern Afghanistan’s Takhar province over the extraction of gold at a major mining site, with protesters saying they have been excluded from benefits while bearing the environmental and economic costs. Local sources and residents in Chah Ab district say demonstrations that began on Friday are still ongoing, driven by […]