カテゴリー: Taliban
Twelve soldiers also killed during raids on two TTP hideouts on border with AfghanistanFierce clashes broke out in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan when Pakistani security forces raided two hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, killing 12 soldier…
Afghanistan is facing ‘several overlapping crises’, a UN official said, after thousands of homes were reduced to rubble in earthquakes this week. Survivors face a bleak future, with aid agencies warning of dwindling funds for food, shelter and medicine…
A Taliban health ministry spokesperson appealed for international assistance to support victims of a powerful earthquake that has killed more than 800 and injured at least 2,500. ‘We urgently call on humanitarian organizations to step in and provide im…
Taliban appeal for aid, with casualties expected to increase as rescue teams struggle to reach isolated areas The Taliban have called for international aid as Afghanistan reels from an earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people and left thousands m…
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operationsThe Taliban have issued an order targeting underground beauty salons operating in secret across Afghanistan, warning the women running them th…
The clandestine businesses – a financial lifeline for many women – have been given a month to cease operationsThe Taliban have issued an order targeting underground beauty salons operating in secret across Afghanistan, warning the women running them th…
Thousands gathered for Kabul ‘flower showers’ while women, banned from the events, staged protestsThousands of men gathered across Kabul on Friday to watch flowers being scattered from helicopters to mark the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return …
Esteemed foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson’s new book offers a full accounting of life in Afghanistan from before 9/11 to nowJon Lee Anderson is “not done with Afghanistan”, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, …
Those who fled Afghanistan fearing gender apartheid have been forced back to live in a society in which, without a male ‘guardian’, they cannot work or rent a home, leaving them in poverty and open to abuseSafia* thought she had finally found safety …
The British government’s secret scheme to bring those at risk to the UK has dominated headlines, but, worldwide, many times more are losing protectionThe British public discovered only very belatedly that an enormous accidental data breach by an offici…
Human rights officials demand Peter and Barbie Reynolds be moved to hospital and out of ‘degrading’ jail conditionsUN human rights experts have warned that an elderly British couple detained in Afghanistan may die in “degrading conditions” as they dema…
Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, have been held for five-and-a-half months without charge The children of an elderly couple imprisoned by the Taliban in Afghanistan have urged the group to release the pair before they “die in custody”.They s…
Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response RouteI suppose we might have guessed something like this. In August 2021, the then foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, had moaned about the “sea being closed…
Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanityThe international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes agai…
Thousands of lone women forced to return face extreme repression and destitution under Taliban laws that forbid them to work or travel without a male guardianWomen forced back to living under the Taliban’s increasingly repressive regime have spoken of …