カテゴリー: Taliban
Nasir is stranded in Jalalabad with his family and says he feels let down by the UK Foreign OfficeNasir*, 43, is a British citizen, stuck in Jalalabad with his six-year-old son, also a British citizen, and his wife, who is an Afghan national.I moved t…
One woman reportedly taken to hospital after protest calling for right to work and education is stoppedTaliban forces have fired pepper spray at a group of women protesting in Afghanistan’s capital to demand rights to work and education.Since seizing c…
Gul Bano and Karima’s former offices are in the hands of the Taliban – and they fear for their livesGul Bano* and Karima* are activists who ran provincial branches of the ministry of women’s affairs in two different parts of Afghanistan. Their former o…
First in a new series about people left behind in Afghanistan, meet Asif, who worked for the UN and Adam Smith International before fleeing to PakistanAsif* has lost almost everything since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. His wife was shot dead….
Former prime minister says country is at risk of famine and UK must take lead in resuming delivery of aid• The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is morally wrongGordon Brown has written to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, c…
A liberal world order that puts military and economic sanctions before food is neither liberal nor orderlyHow can it be that, in these first weeks of 2022, the world is allowing millions of Afghan children to face death from starvation? And this after …
Prof Faizullah Jalal, an outspoken critic of Afghanistan’s ruling group, was arrested for alleged remarks on social mediaSupporters of a prominent university professor, and one of Afghanistan’s most vocal critics of the Taliban, are calling for his rel…
Sohail Ahmadi, who was being raised by a local Kabul taxi driver, will hopefully now travel to the US to live with his parents An infant boy handed in desperation to a US soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghani…
Decision to close public hammams – most people’s only chance for a warm wash – sparks anger in light of country’s mounting crisesThe Taliban sparked outrage this week by announcing that women in northern Afghanistan would no longer be allowed to use co…
Fawzia escaped from Afghanistan. Now in London, she’s trying to secure a safe exit for women still strandedJust under three weeks before the Taliban reached Kabul and took control of Afghanistan, 50 of the most powerful women in the country gathered ou…
In first interview since fleeing Kabul in August, former president says US ‘erased’ Afghans in years of peace talks with militantsThe former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has broken his silence with his first interview since fleeing Kabul four months a…
Aid collapse after Taliban took control means just 2% of people have enough to eat, UN saysIn his seven decades, Mehrajuddin has been a police commander, a fighter for the mujahideen, a district governor and a prosecutor, and even briefly worked in Eur…
Ex-PM warns poverty and starvation mean country is at risk of world’s biggest humanitarian crisisThe west is “sleepwalking into the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times” in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown has warned, as he called for a support package to…
Grant Bailey was working as security consultant in Kabul where he liaised with US state departmentA British man is missing in Afghanistan after a report he has been detained by the Taliban. Grant Bailey was arrested in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where …
Backing is also given to UN resolution exempting most aid from threat of sanctionsThe US has eased its restrictions on mainstream humanitarian aid reaching famine-stricken Afghanistan and backed a UN security council resolution exempting most aid from …