カテゴリー: Taliban
Talks involving up to 20 nations come as militants ignore calls to form inclusive government in AfghanistanThe US is convening an expanded group of western nations to set a framework for cooperation with the new Taliban government, amid fears that isol…
Life for single mothers in Afghanistan has always been marred by stigma and poverty. Now with the Taliban in control, what few protections they had have disappearedThe day after Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, fell to the Tali…
Anniversary of 9/11 and fall of Kabul trigger questions over US interventionismThe 20th anniversary of 9/11 and its fallout was always going to be a moment of deep soul searching about what has been lost and learned.But the retrospective, until a few w…
Country will once again be officially known as an Islamic emirate, as at least two people killed in protestsThe Taliban have announced an all-male caretaker government including an interior minister wanted by the FBI, on a day when at least two people …
Afghan-Australian Mahboba Rawi says the valley’s residents are without food and medical supplies in the last holdout against the militants’ ruleAfghanistan’s Panjshir valley is facing a humanitarian crisis, with families trapped inside the narrow valle…
Works including celebration of killed aid worker and signing of peace agreement are replacedThe Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans as the new rulers continued to reimpose their aus…
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…
Afghans forced to sell possessions on streets of Mazar-e-Sharif as fragile economy buckles under instabilityYasemeen sits in the back of an open trailer with a bundle of her family’s old clothes wrapped in scarves and some used notebooks already full o…
Video released by the Taliban shows the militants raising their flag outside the governor’s office in the capital of Panjshir province, the last major holdout since Kabul fell in August. The Taliban say they’ve captured the mountain valley wh…
Marina LeGree claims group of Americans and at-risk Afghans prevented from flying for a weekJoe Biden’s administration is facing mounting pressure amid reports that several hundred people, including Americans, had been prevented for a week from flying …
After her flight from the Taliban, blind activist Benafsha Yaqoobi says fellow vulnerable compatriots are in dangerWorld leaders must act to protect disabled Afghans who are in immediate danger under Taliban rule, a prominent blind human rights activis…
Those who made it on to flights tell of relief mixed with fear for others targeted by TalibanBack in Afghanistan, Hasib Nooralam had a high-flying career and was working as the director of youth crime at the attorney general’s office when the Taliban t…
As an aid worker, I can see first-hand how a perfect storm of conflict, drought and Covid has gripped the countryIt felt surreal to be flying into Kabul international airport rather than out, crossing paths with families who were trying to flee. For th…
Militia members fire shots into air and demonstrator says they also used teargas and stun gunsTaliban fighters have broken up a women’s rights march in Kabul with gunfire as bitter fighting continued in Afghanistan’s last rebel holdout and the US army’…
Amid upheaval across the country, it remains unclear whether a new government will forbid music as it did 25 years agoThe shutters have been down all along Kharabat Street, the storied heart of Afghan musical life, since the Taliban swept into Kabul in…