TheStarsHub — Qasim received a call in late March that his brother, an employee with Afghanistan’s Taliban government, had been seriously injured in a suicide bombing near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul. The 32-year-old rushed to the hospital with his family, but when they got there he was told by the doctors his … Read more
Advertisement Journalism in Afghanistan has never been easy, but it perhaps has never been more difficult than it is today. Radio Azadi, the Afghan Service offered by U.S.-funded broadcaster RFE/RL was launched in 2002. With programing in two of Afghanistan’s most widely spoken languages, Dari and Pashto, the service had by 2021 built up a … Read more
This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marines at Abbey Gate before a suicide bomber struck outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan. Credit: Department of Defense via AP, File Advertisement It is not often that the United States and the Taliban vouch for … Read more
Hours before the end of Title 42, a family of six from Afghanistan awaited their fate at the border wall in Tijuana, Mexico, after traveling through more than a dozen countries.
Advertisement China on Wednesday called on Afghanistan to reform its radical policies excluding women from education and public life and “adopt a more resolute attitude in combating terrorism.” The comments from Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin came on the heels of a Pakistan-hosted mini-summit of China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan that sought to promote trade and … Read more
Advertisement Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime have agreed to boost trade and lower tensions along their border amid a surge in militant attacks on security forces, officials said Monday. Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Afghanistan’s Taliban-appointed foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, struck the deal Sunday in Islamabad, according to Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry. The … Read more
Advertisement A closed-door summit on Afghanistan ended Tuesday in Qatar without any formal acknowledgment of the Taliban-controlled government there, though the United Nations’ chief said they would hold another meeting in the future. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attended the summit, which the world body described as nations and organizations trying to reach unified stances on … Read more
Advertisement Facing acute drought conditions, the Taliban government is undertaking an ambitious program to upgrade its water infrastructure. However, the program has elevated tensions with the countries surrounding Afghanistan. Kabul lacks the technical ability to harness its water resources fully, but it can make life more miserable for its water-challenged neighbors. Two years of drought … Read more