カテゴリー: Taliban
Taliban deny responsibility after secondary school targeted in bloody attack in KabulDozens of young girls were buried on Sunday at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan…
Attack in Afghan capital injures mainly female students coming out of school in Shia Muslim areaAt least 40 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a bomb attack on girls leaving their school in a largely Shia Muslim neighbourhood in Kabul.R…
Mark Milley overseeing withdrawal by 11 SeptemberBiden marks 10th anniversary of killing of Osama bin LadenCar bomb kills at least 21 as US prepares to withdraw troopsAfghan government forces face some “bad possible outcomes” against Taliban insurgents…
Scores also injured in the blast in southern city of Pul-e-Alam the day before Pentagon begins to pull out its remaining forcesAt least 21 people have been killed and nearly 100 wounded after a car bomb exploded in an Afghan city south of the capital t…
Beijing backs government ‘anti-terror’ efforts as Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for car bomb A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson has condemned Wednesday’s powerful car bomb explosion at a hotel where the Chinese ambassador is understood to…
Rise in cases feared as murders halt campaigns and leave many women too afraid to workGul Meena Hotak was on her regular rounds, going door-to-door giving polio vaccinations in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, when she heard gunshots.The 22-year-o…
As troops prepare to withdraw from the war-torn country, readers reflect on western nations’ involvement and legacyYour editorial (15 April) asserts that the Taliban were quick to take over when the Russians left. That is simply not true; it actually t…
Joe Biden has called time on America’s longest war. The decision exposes the limits of US power and leaves an uncertain futureBritain’s former prime minister Harold Macmillan is said to have told colleagues that the first law of politics should be “nev…
US intelligence evaluates claims of Afghanistan bountiesPress reports sparked outrage and calls to confront KremlinUS intelligence agencies have only “low to moderate confidence” in reports last year that Russian spies were offering Taliban militants i…
Withdrawal of US and Nato military personnel to begin on 1 May‘It’s time to end America’s longest war’ – Biden at White HouseUS president Joe Biden has declared it was time “to end America’s longest war” as he announced that nearly 10,000 US and Nato t…
After 20 years of liberty, female education is once again threatened by hardline IslamistsOutside a college from which their mothers were banned, the women waited for friends finishing exams they fear will be some of the last they can take. “The Americ…
Murders of two volunteers and a nurse come one day after relaunch of national vaccination campaignTwo female volunteers and a nurse working door to door to vaccinate children against polio were shot dead by gunmen in two separate incidents in the Afgha…
Surprise visit and meeting with President Ashraf Ghani in KabulTrip comes ahead of 1 May deadline to bring US troops homeLloyd Austin, the US secretary of defense, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, meeting President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul….
Government appears to backtrack on decree after women take to social media to sing in defiance under #IAmMySong hashtagAfghanistan’s Ministry of Education appears to be backtracking on a decision to impose a nationwide singing ban on schoolgirls.In a l…
As the deadline for US withdrawal looms, the Taliban are seizing their chance and the death toll rises dailyGhazaal Habibyar’s trembling hand hovered over her mobile phone, unable to type the numbers. “I was afraid to hear bad news,” she recalls of tha…