armed conflict location & event data project (acled),

The report includes an overview of the clashes that have occurred between Taliban and anti-Taliban forces, as well as between the Taliban and the Islamic State (IS), since the Taliban came to power.

It highlights the contribution of Afghan Peace Watch (APW) data to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) dataset, examining how key trends concerning violence targeting civilians, particularly political violence targeting women, are better captured as a result of adaptations made to reporting and sourcing data. This report reviews the challenges of sourcing data in Afghanistan in the seven months after the Taliban takeover. Organizations tracking political violence and protests have thus had to adapt to the changing environment to adequately capture trends on the ground. Amid ongoing concerns over civilian targeting and an increasingly repressive context for reporting, acquiring information on risks has been severely impacted. As a result of the heightened risk of violence targeting civilians under Taliban rule, Afghanistan is included in ACLED’s 10 conflicts to worry about in 2022, in part due to the particularly high level of violence targeting women in politics, specifically women who aim to prevent the erosion of the rights of women and girls.

After the 15 August 2021 fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, violence towards civilians has persisted in Afghanistan.

Armed conflict location & event data project (acled),