カテゴリー: Taliban
Despite their promises of peace and stability, the country is on its knees, and its people are desperateMaryam* is near the top of her sixth grade class in Kabul, which under Taliban rule means that her education should be ending in a few months.But th…
The Afghan-Iranian artist narrowly escaped from Kabul to Paris last August, as the Taliban took over. She talks about the terror of that time, why she still longs for home, and her work photographing Afghan women in exile in FranceWhen the US governmen…
Home Office accused of failing to ensure safety of thousands including teachers and translatorsThousands of Afghans who worked for the UK have been abandoned and remain at risk from the Taliban a year after the evacuation from Kabul, a coalition of hum…
The explosion happened in a western district where the minority Shia Muslim community regularly meetA bomb exploded in a busy shopping street in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday injuring at least 22 people, hospital officials and witnesses said….
Senior commanders caught between hopes for international recognition and pressure from their own ranksSenior Taliban commanders weighing up how to respond to the US assassination of al-Qaida’s leader in Kabul are caught between their hopes for internat…
After a decades-long hunt the simple habit of sitting out on the balcony gave the CIA an opportunity to launch ‘tailored strike’ In the end it was one of the oldest mistakes in the fugitive’s handbook that apparently did for Ayman al-Zawahiri, the top …
Sherpur, with its gaudy ‘poppy palaces’, has hosted warlords, US contractors and now the Taliban’s top tierThe leader of al-Qaida spent the last weeks of his life less than 500 metres from the swimming pool and bar where British diplomats relaxed durin…
Leader of global militant group was killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan on SundayThe leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan on Sunday. The US president, Joe Biden, announced the death on Monday evenin…
Analysis: The terrorist leader had been ill and key tasks are likely to have been handled by others for several yearsAyman al-Zawahiri was a low-key but effective leader of al-Qaida whose death will cause the terrorist organisation some short-term turb…
Unesco says it has not been consulted on project and local experts are alarmed at Taliban plansThe Taliban have launched construction work on a tourism complex just metres from the cliff that held the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which archeologists and exp…
Officials say they can not provide hope of resettlement for Afghans who worked for UK civilian schemesThe UK Foreign Office has admitted a catalogue of errors over its handling of Britain’s exit from Afghanistan, but has shut the door on many Afghans w…
Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincingThe smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a non…
Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincingThe smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a non…
Allegations include 160 killings of ex-government officials and security forces, torture and punishmentsTaliban authorities have presided over widespread human rights abuses since they took control of Afghanistan last August, the UN said, including 160…
As economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace themThe Taliban have asked women employees at Afghanistan’s finance ministry to send a male relative to do their job a year af…