Tag: Afghanistan

Saudi Arabia sends humanitarian aid to Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Saudi Arabia has sent two aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, state media reported, its first such initiative since the Taliban took control of the crisis-stricken...

Central Asia And The Taliban: The Difference Between A Restive Border And A Quiet One (Bruce Pannier, RFE RL)

The Taliban is back in power in Afghanistan, and one of the biggest differences this time compared to 1996 -- when the Taliban first...

China’s second batch of winter supplies arrives in Afghanistan (Global Times)

China's second batch of winter supplies has arrived in Afghanistan. Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan and the acting deputy minister of refugee affairs of the...

Afghanistan Relocation and Resettlement Update (US Department of State)

Since August 31, the State Department has continued its around-the-clock efforts to relocate U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents currently in Afghanistan who want to depart, as well as Afghan allies who worked with us over...

Donors back $280m fund transfer to help avert Afghan famine (Al Jazeera)

International donors have agreed to transfer $280m from a frozen trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF to support nutrition and...

The Taliban are losing the fight against Islamic State (Oved Lobel, The Strategist)

In what is becoming a monthly phenomenon, Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan (Islamic State Khorasan, or IS-K) has topped all of its global provinces in terms...

Western countries express concern over Afghan reprisals, Taliban reject accusations (Reuters)

The United States and a group of Western countries including Germany, France and Britain have expressed concern over reported killings and disappearances of former...

Avoid starvation: ‘Immediate priority’ for 3.5 million Afghans (UN News)

Launching a global fundraising winter campaign to help forcibly displaced families in Afghanistan and elsewhere to cope with the most life-threatening months of the year, UNHCR Spokesperson Babar Baloch described it...

A Taliban ban on women in the workforce can cost economy $1bn (Eltaf Najafizada, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

The Taliban’s move to restrict women from working could immediately cost the Afghan economy up to $1 billion, or 5% of GDP, the United...

Taliban urges US to release frozen funds in Doha talks (Arab News)

Taliban government leader Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund is among those targeted by the US sanctions Taliban urges US to release frozen funds in Doha...

Inside the Data-Driven Operation that Moved Afghan Refugees from Dulles to Safe Havens (Col. Matthew Strohmeyer, Grace Hwang, Lt. Col. Cichelle Macander, Erol YayBoke,...

When the phone rang for Brig. Gen. Mark Weber on Aug. 22, it wasn’t the order that the chief of staff of the Montana...

The Doha accord and Taliban legitimacy (Syed Fazl-e-Haider, The Interpreter)

Under the 2020 Doha Agreement, the US withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan was conditional on Taliban security assurances that Afghan territory would not be used as...

The grim calculus behind Afghan tragedy (Harsch V. Pant, Kriti M. Shali, ORF)

It’s been more than three months since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan and the situation in that country continues to worsen by the day. The ongoing...

Pakistan ‘welcomes’ second round of US-Taliban talks in Doha (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan has “welcomed” a second round of talks between the United States and the Taliban since the latter’s takeover of Afghanistan earlier this year,...

Afghan women speak up against new Taliban media guidelines (Farah Najjar, Al Jazeera)

Afghan journalists and activists have expressed concern over a new “religious guideline” issued by Taliban rulers, saying the move is yet another form of control over...

Is the Taliban takeover a tragedy or a farce? (Laila Bushra, East Asia Forum)

The Taliban’s first stint in power from 1996–2001 was an unqualified tragedy for Afghanistan and the rest of the world. It saw thousands of...