Tag: Afghanistan

Russia/Afghanistan – Russia’s regional clout to strengthen further amid post Afghan exit turmoil, says envoy (TASS)

TASS writes: Moscow’s powerful regional clout amid the current situation in Afghanistan will expand even further following the pullout of US troops from that...

Russia/USA/Afghanistan – Russian-US dialogue on Afghanistan developing positively, senior diplomat says (TASS)

TASS writes: Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov noted that Russian and US interests in the Afghan settlement generally coincided go to TASS:...

Afghanistan/Pakistan – Afghan soldiers flee attack, cross border: Pakistan army (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Dozens of Afghan soldiers have slipped across the border into northwestern Pakistan after their border post was overrun, apparently by the Taliban,...

Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s neighbours need to step in if they want stability (Al Jazeera)

Najib Sharifi writes for Al Jazeera: The withdrawal of the United States and NATO forces from Afghanistan has put a crucial choice before the...

Afghanistan/China/Russia/SCO – China, Russia have aligned interests to facilitate SCO role for Afghanistan (Global Times)

Danil Bochkov writes: President Joe Biden's decision on the swift withdrawal of American military forces from Afghanistan by August 31 has had a very...

Afghanistan – Another proxy war in Afghanistan? (The Interpreter)

AARTI BETIGERI writes for The Interpreter: With the US in the process of withdrawing the last of its troops from Afghanistan, it has taken little...

Afghanistan – ‘Unprecedented’: UN says Afghan civilian deaths up by 47 percent (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Nearly 2,400 Afghan civilians have been killed or injured in May and June as fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces...

The Taliban explained (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The Taliban have won a string of battlefield victories in recent weeks as the United States-led foreign forces are about to complete...

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: The only way to tame a belligerent Taliban (ORF)

AYJAZ WANI writes: A resurgent Taliban is in haste to recapture power in Afghanistan and is making advances across the war-torn country following the...

Afghanistan imposes night curfew to curb Taliban advance (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Afghanistan’s government has imposed a night-time curfew across almost all of the country’s 34 provinces to stem surging violence unleashed by...

Abdullah Abdullah: Can Afghanistan move ahead without US troops? (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: The US invasion of Afghanistan began in 2001. Twenty years on, the Americans are still there, but President Joe Biden has promised...

The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan Portends a Vacuum and Uncertain Future (INSS)

Yoram Schweitzer and Oded Eran write for INSS: The impending United States withdrawal from Afghanistan fulfills the goals of the three administrations prior to...

(Afghanistan/USA/Europe) U.S.-Europe Communiqué on Afghanistan and Peace Efforts (US Department of State)

MEDIA NOTE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON The following is the text of a communiqué issued by the United States of America, the European Union, France, Germany,...

(Afghanistan) Taliban seek to cut off Afghan population centres: Top US general (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Taliban fighters have gained “strategic momentum” in Afghanistan and now control about half the countryside as they drive to cut off...

(Afghanistan) ‘Journalism is sacred work’: Afghanistan’s front line reporters (Al Jazeera)

Robyn Huang and Matt Reichel writes for Al Jazeera: It was about 8am on a Monday morning in April 2018 when Bushra Seddique felt the multi-storey...

(USA/Afghanistan) George W Bush warns of ‘bad’ outcome of US Afghanistan pullout (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Former United States President George W Bush, who initiated the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, has warned the US and NATO...