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Five years after Taliban takeover, life in Afghanistan marred by many struggles

The Hindu · 🇮🇳 public India · · 244 words · By Smriti Sudesh
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Five years after Taliban takeover, life in Afghanistan marred by many struggles While the Taliban have retained power, a weak economy, suffocating restrictions on women, international isolation and growing tensions with Pakistan remain key challenges;…

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What happened

Five years after Taliban takeover, life in Afghanistan marred by many struggles While the Taliban have retained power, a weak economy, suffocating restrictions on women, international isolation and growing tensions with Pakistan remain key challenges;…

Why it matters

| Photo Credit: AFP It has been five years since the Taliban returned to Kabul, bringing an end to the U.S.-led military presence in Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic that had ruled the country for two decades.

Common ground

On August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered the Afghan capital as President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “the Taliban have retained power”
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Multiple sources, including The Hindu and the Counter Extremism Project, confirm that the Taliban remain in control of Afghanistan as of August 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban insurgent group and allied militants conducted a military offensive in 2021 that led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي امارت, romanized: Da Afghānistān Islāmī Imārāt), retroactively referred to as the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, was a totalitaria…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban, officially known as the Islamic Movement of Taliban, also referring to itself by the name of the government it operates, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is the ruling government and r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
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Claim 2: “bringing an end to the U.S.-led military presence in Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic that had ruled the country for two decades.”
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Wikipedia and Britannica confirm that the Taliban takeover ended the rule of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the U.S.-led military presence (which began after 9/11 and lasted nearly 20 years).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي امارت, romanized: Da Afghānistān Islāmī Imārāt), retroactively referred to as the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, was a totalitaria…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic State of Afghanistan (Dari: دولت اسلامی افغانستان, Dawlat-i Islāmī-yi Afġānistān, Pashto: دا افغانستان اسلامی دولت, Da Afghanistan Islami Dowlat) was a unitary Islamic state that was estab…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Afghanistan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing conflict waged by armed factions loyal to the defunct Islamic Republic of Afghanistan against the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_insurgency_in_Afgha…
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Claim 3: “Five years after Taliban takeover”
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Multiple live web sources (ReliefWeb, DNYUZ) explicitly state that as of August 2026, it has been five years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan (which occurred in August 2021).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban insurgent group and allied militants conducted a military offensive in 2021 that led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي امارت, romanized: Da Afghānistān Islāmī Imārāt), retroactively referred to as the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, was a totalitaria…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban, officially known as the Islamic Movement of Taliban, also referring to itself by the name of the government it operates, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is the ruling government and r…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
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Claim 4: “On August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered the Afghan capital as President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources (Euronews, The Guardian) confirm the Taliban entered Kabul on August 15, 2021, and that President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban insurgent group and allied militants conducted a military offensive in 2021 that led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 15 August 2021, Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul was captured by the Taliban after a major insurgent offensive that began in May 2021. It was the final action of the War in Afghanistan, and mark…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Taliban insurgency began after the group's fall from power during the 2001 war in Afghanistan. The Taliban forces fought against the Afghan government, led by President Hamid Karzai, and later by …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban_insurgency
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Claim 5: “The collapse of the government marked the end of America’s longest war”
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Wikipedia and other sources confirm the 2001-2021 war in Afghanistan was the longest war in U.S. history, ending with the collapse of the Afghan government and the final U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Relations between Afghanistan and the United States began in 1921 under the leaderships of King Amanullah Khan and President Warren G. Harding, respectively. The first contact between the two nations …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. In February 2020, the first Trump administration and the Taliban sig…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2021_US_troop_withdrawal_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Afghan Americans are Americans with ancestry from Afghanistan. They form the largest Afghan community in North America. Afghan Americans may originate from any of the ethnic groups in Afghanistan. The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Americans
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