https://indianexpress.com/article/world/afghanistan-taliban-uprising-mahdi-8098753/

‘The rumbling of engines echoed across the valley at dusk as scores of men with mismatched camouflage and mud-caked Kalashnikovs descended into the town in northern Afghanistan.

Many had driven hours down the snow-capped mountains to reach the town and join forces with Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahid, a former Shiite commander within the mostly Sunni Taliban who had recently renounced the new Taliban government and seized control of this district.’

Washington Post, 8 August, 2022

‘…In the capital, Kabul, Taliban authorities have been struggling to contain a rash of terrorist attacks on the Shiite Muslim community over the past week. The attacks, mostly claimed by Islamic State militants, have sown panic in the Shiite Muslim community as it observes a period of religious mourning for a revered figure: Imam Hussein, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad slain in battle in the 7th century.’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/08/pakistan-taliban-leader-strike-afghanistan-shiite/

See also alJazeera.
See also Reuters.

See also BBC News.

Life under the Taliban: Yalda Hakim’s journey back to Afghanistan

With access to the new Taliban government, the BBC’s Yalda Hakim travels back to Afghanistan to find out what the country is like under their rule.

She speaks to former teachers who chose to stay and fight for their rights and visits a hospital where children are malnourished because their families cannot afford food.

In Kandahar, Yalda meets the Taliban police governor and questions what his force is doing to protect the Shia minority from extremist attacks.

Watch Yalda’s full journey around Afghanistan on Our World: Inside the Taliban regime from Saturday 29 January.