投稿者: Peter Beaumont
Study suggests a worst-case scenario where 97% of Afghans would sink below poverty line by 2022Afghanistan’s population of 38 million people risks being plunged into near-universal poverty faced with a “catastrophic deterioration” of the country’s heav…
New Taliban interim government has loyalist hardliners in all key posts and no womenAfghan women, including the country’s national women’s cricket team, will be banned from playing sport under the new Taliban government, according to an official in the…
Unicef says hundreds of children have been separated from their families in chaos of Kabul evacuationAccess to food aid and other life-saving services in Afghanistan is close to running out, the United Nations has warned, as concern mounts that the cou…
Decision taken in consultation with allies after Biden says US sticking to 31 August withdrawal deadline Afghanistan withdrawal – live updatesPoland has ended its involvement in airlift evacuations from Afghanistan amid growing signs the brief and chao…
Decision likely to leave tens of thousands who had been hoping to escape trapped under group’s controlAfghanistan: latest updatesThe Taliban have moved to prevent Afghans from leaving the country by joining the US-led airlift, declaring the route to Ka…
Militants say that forces must leave by 31 August, after Afghan guard is killed and three wounded in gun battle at Kabul airportThe Taliban have warned that there will be “consequences” if the United States and its allies extend the presence of troops …
Experts warn of hyperinflation and growing poverty, with money transfers from abroad suspended Afghanistan is facing a potentially catastrophic perfect storm of bank closures and shortages of hard currency on top of the suspension of money transfers by…
Analysis: US president’s TV address blamed others for the Taliban takeover and tried to distance himself from past administrationsIn a televised speech on Monday the US president, Joe Biden, defended his decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan …
Analysis: The speed of the fall of the country to the Taliban leaves many questions unansweredTaliban enter Kabul – live updatesThis is what defeat looks like. Embassy burn bins blazing through day and night. The president fleeing. Helicopters and armo…
Afghanistan’s second city was the capital of the jihadist group until 2001 and has vital strategic and symbolic importanceIn the sprawling compound of Mullah Omar, the Taliban’s first emir, outside the southern city of Kandahar, curious onlookers were …
Rout of government forces beginning in city of Zaranj has left country in chaos and western leaders looking on in dismayThe end for Afghan forces in the south-western provincial capital of Zaranj, a trading hub close to the Iranian border, was announce…
Soldiers to arrive within 48 hours to provide security and support for US embassy personnel in KabulUS and other western military planners are accelerating plans for the evacuation of embassy staff in Afghanistan as Kabul is increasingly threatened by …
Officials confirm all but one district of Lashkar Gah is under hardline Islamists’ control after fierce fightingTaliban fighters appeared to be on the brink of overrunning the key Afghan provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, as officials confirmed all but…
Concerns over impact on poorer countries, while richer governments try different containment measuresCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Delta variant of Covid-19, first identified in India, has been detected in 74 countries…
Nobel laureate David Baltimore says he overstated case, and the origins of the virus are still unknownCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” …