# Five years under the Taliban: greater security alongside poverty and lost rights

https://mins.news/en/item/83057

- Meduza, 2026-10-02 07:33 UTC
- World
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/02/five-years-under-the-taliban-meduza-reports-from-afghanistan-where-a-war-on-drugs-and-greater-security-have-come-with-mass-poverty-unemployment-and-the-loss-of-women-s-rights

> After U.S. troops withdrew in 2021, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. Fighting has largely ended, travel is relatively safer, and its opium crackdown appears effective, but mass poverty, unemployment and severe restrictions on women remain. A report from Herat to Kandahar also examines the continuing threat from ISIS-K and Afghanistan’s deep ethnic divisions.

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