Return of the Taliban

The first account of the new Taliban—showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors
 
A Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Book of 2023
 
Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban have effective control of Afghanistan—a scenario few Western commentators anticipated. But after a twenty-year-long bitter war against the Republic of Afghanistan, reestablishing control is ...