When The Taliban Turned the Internet Off in Afghanistan

Never Post · Mar 12, 2026 · 36m · transcript

Contributing producer and Kabul-based journalist Ali Latifi tells the story of a roughly 48-hour period, at the end of 2025, when the Taliban turned off the entire internet in Afghanistan.

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