Tag: Afghanistan

Embracing Afghan refugees is a strategic opportunity for the US (Sarah Dawn Petrin, Atlantic Council)

While helping evacuees from Afghanistan at a US government facility in Virginia in September, I was struck by the excitement of the families gathered...
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US to resume talks with Taliban in Qatar: State Department (Al Jazeera)

The United States is set to resume talks with the Taliban next week in Qatar, discussing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and steps to ensure that...
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Is Pakistan heading down the same path as Afghanistan? (Mohammed Ayoob, The Strategist)

Recent events in Afghanistan and their fallout in Pakistan clearly demonstrate that the problems plaguing the two countries can’t be separated. That the trajectories...
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Afghanistan: Taliban unveil new rules banning women in TV dramas (BBC)

Women have been banned from appearing in television dramas in Afghanistan under new rules imposed by the Taliban government. Afghanistan: Taliban unveil new rules banning...
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Afghanistan’s farmers, herders desperate for seed, food and cash (UN News)

“Catastrophic and famine-like conditions” hang over Afghanistan’s farmers and herders, whose needs continue to worsen with the onset of winter, UN humanitarians said on...
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Afghanistan ‘on the brink of catastrophe’: UN envoy (Al Jazeera)

The UN envoy for Afghanistan says the country is “on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe”, urging the international community to find ways to...
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Taliban ‘Open Letter’ Appeals to US Congress to Unfreeze Afghan Assets (Ayaz Gul, VoA)

The Taliban foreign minister Wednesday penned an “open letter” to the U.S. Congress, warning of a mass refugee exodus from Afghanistan unless the United...
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Afghan FM confirms Kabul ‘mediating’ talks between Pakistan, TTP (Al Jazeera)

The Taliban is acting as a mediator between the Pakistani government and the Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister...
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Qatar to act as US diplomatic representative in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

The United States and Qatar have agreed that Doha will represent the diplomatic interests of the US in Afghanistan, the first official representation for...
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Anger, betrayal, and humiliation: how veterans feel about the withdrawal from Afghanistan (William A. Galston, Brookings)

In the wake of the chaotic U. S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last August, many observers believed that the memory would quickly fade as Americans...
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The Narco-Terrorist Taliban (Brahma Chellaney, Project-Syndicate)

The strategic folly of US President Joe Biden’s Afghan policy has been laid bare in recent weeks. First, the country came back under the control of...
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Afghanistan: Mosque in Nangarhar province hit by blast (Al Jazeera)

An explosion has hit a mosque in the Spin Ghar area of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, killing at least three...
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Pakistan hosts US, China, Russia to discuss Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Pakistan has hosted senior diplomats from the United States, China and Russia in Islamabad to discuss the situation in neighbouring Afghanistan, where a deepening...
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Iran deporting thousands of Afghan refugees (Al Jazeera)

Iran is sending tens of thousands of Afghan refugees back over the border, aid agencies and witnesses say, amid allegations of mistreatment by Iranian...
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More than 20 terrorist organizations operate in Afghanistan — Security Council’s chief (TASS)

More than two dozen terrorist organizations having a total strength of 23,000 militants are operating in Afghanistan at the moment, according to different estimates,...
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Thousands of Afghan Refugees Await Rescue. Here’s What the US Needs to Do (Mike Edwards, Zak Kallenborn, Defense One)

The rapid fall of the Afghan government left a national-security and humanitarian mess. Thousands of American citizens and green-card holders were left stranded. Interpreters and translators who risked...
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