Tag: Afghanistan

Taliban backs WHO polio vaccination campaign across Afghanistan next month (UN News)

The vaccination campaign will begin on 8 November, and will be the first in over three years to reach all children in Afghanistan. This includes more than three million children in...

Iran to host multilateral conference on Afghanistan on October 27 (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Tehran will host a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbours plus Russia next week, the country’s foreign ministry has confirmed, with the October 27 event witnessing...

Taliban says Afghan girls will return to secondary schools soon (Al Jazeera)

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs has said girls will be allowed to return to secondary schools soon. Qari Saeed Khosty, a spokesman for the interior ministry,...

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led future (Abdulkader Sinno, East Asia Forum)

Afghanistan has largely returned to Taliban rule after 20 years of US-led occupation. There are still bastions of resistance to undisputed Taliban control from the local...

Will Afghanistan’s powerful neighbours engage the Taliban? (Zahir Sherazi, Al Jazeera)

The withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan is inevitably leaving a political vacuum in South and Central Asia. The question that many...

US offers to pay families of Afghans killed in drone attack (Al Jazeera)

The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched US drone attack in Afghanistan...

Ahead Of Talks, Putin Claims IS Has 2,000 Fighters In Afghanistan (RFE RL)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Islamic State (IS) militant group has thousands of fighters in northern Afghanistan, as Moscow prepares to host...

The challenge of addressing the health care needs of Afghan evacuees (Stuart M. Butler and Nehath Sheriff, Brookings)

Over 130,000 people were evacuated from Afghanistan as United States and allied troops left the country at the end of August, with more individuals and families expected...

Afghan quagmire may trigger critical-level tensions, warns Moscow-led bloc’s brass (TASS)

After the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) seized power in Afghanistan, developments there have led to growing instability in Central Asia and can worsen even...

Taliban to visit Russia next week to take part in talks on Afghanistan, says diplomat (TASS)

The Taliban (banned in Russia) delegation will arrive in Moscow next week to participate in the Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Ministry...

Iranian and Pakistani military leaders discuss cooperation, Afghanistan (Al-Monitor)

Iranian and Pakistani military leaders vowed to improved cooperation and discussed Afghanistan on Wednesday. Iranian and Pakistani military leaders discuss cooperation, Afghanistan - Al-Monitor: The...

Afghanistan’s girls lament continued closure of high schools (Ali M Latifi, Al Jazeera)

Kabul resident Rahela Nussrat, 17, is in her final year of high school, but she has not been able to attend classes. The reason:...

G20 agrees aid to avert Afghanistan humanitarian crisis (Al Jazeera)

The Group of 20 (G20) has agreed to work together to avoid a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, even if it means having to coordinate...

Qatar urges engagement with Taliban amid humanitarian crisis (Al Jazeera)

Qatar believes that recognising the Taliban government in Afghanistan is not a priority now, and that the focus should be on engaging with the...

Afghanistan crisis worsening as temperatures drop, warns UNHCR (UN News)

A month since the UN-led $606 million appeal for solidarity for the people of Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency said that only 35 per cent of...

Russia retains considerable influence on Taliban — Russian envoy (TASS)

Russia's influence on the Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) in Afghanistan remains considerable, Russia's special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, director of the Foreign Ministry's...