カテゴリー: Taliban
Nancy Yu, AKA Asia One is drawing on the hip-hop movement’s activist roots to help a group of artists and their families escape the TalibanA veteran of the hip-hop scene and internationally celebrated breakdancer, Nancy Yu – AKA Asia One – has her fair…
‘We are not punishing the Taliban, we are making it worse for the people,’ says former UK foreign secretaryThe west has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan and its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the country, according to …
Minister admits there is no way to move some refugees on without losing government support‘Doesn’t seem possible’: Londoner who wants to house Afghan refugeesThousands of Afghans rescued from the Taliban remain stuck in UK hotels, after a minister admi…
Television industry employees once used their programs to address progressive ideas. Many are now out of work and fearful to leave their homesFor nearly two decades, Afghanistan’s TV industry developed popular hits, from medical shows and family dramas…
Journalist and several other reporters freed after being held while on assignment with UNHCRThe Taliban have released a British journalist and several other reporters they had been holding for several days, in an incident that deepened concerns about p…
Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of hands of TalibanJoe Biden signed an executive order on Friday releasing $7bn in frozen Afghan reserves to be split between humanitarian effor…
After the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, millions of teenage girls have been forbidden from receiving a high school education. Taliban officials have claimed the ban is temporary, but said the same thing the last time they were in power more t…
Since recapturing Afghanistan, the Taliban have largely if inconsistently closed down girls’ schooling – but have found a new generation ready to fight for the right to studyWhen the Taliban reached Parveen Tokhi’s home province of Zabul in mid-August …
Five Pakistani soldiers killed as Taliban-led Afghanistan resists cooperation with IslamabadThe Pakistani-Afghan border, running along Britain’s colonial-era Durand Line, is a centre of the increasing tensions between Islamabad and the Taliban, with a …
Exclusive: first reported case of attempted international recruitment to IS since US left AfghanistanTwo suspected Islamic State recruits, one of them carrying a British passport, were seized by the Taliban when they tried to slip into Afghanistan last…
As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital’s streets are all that stand between their family and starvationAmid the roadside restaurants and bustling crowds in one of Kabul’s busiest mar…
Women required to attend separate classes and follow dress code at facilities in Kandahar and Helmand as they restart classes for first time since Taliban takeoverPublic universities in Kandahar and Helmand provinces in Afghanistan have reopened after …
The New Zealand reporter said she was stranded in Afghanistan and forced to turn to the Taliban for help after requests to return home were rejectedA pregnant New Zealand journalist who was stranded in Afghanistan after failing to secure a spot in her …
Charlotte Bellis, a journalist, says she was forced to return to Afghanistan after her application was met with ‘clauses and technicalities and confusion’The New Zealand government has defended its strict quarantine system known as MIQ after a pregnant…
Extrajudicial killings allegedly carried out despite Taliban assurances of safety for those linked to previous leadership or foreign forcesThe United Nations says it has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 members of the ousted Afghan go…