By PETROS GIANNAKOURIS Associated Press December 8, 2021, 6:08 AM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article HERAT, Afghanistan — Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan more than three and a half months ago amid a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops, their fighters haveContinue Reading
Britain’s then-Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab took several hours to respond to urgent requests, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted vital resources were used to evacuate animals instead of people, an ex-staffer at the UK’s Foreign Office alleged in written testimony to Parliament published on Tuesday. His damning account paints aContinue Reading
CNN — A Taliban governor in northern Afghanistan has been killed by an explosion in his office, police officials have told CNN. Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh province, died along with two others in the blast on Thursday, said the provincial police force’s spokesman Asif Waziri. The causeContinue Reading
Yulduz Hashimi (left), Fariba Hashimi (centre) and fellow Afghan Zehra Rezayee on the podium after the Women’s Road Championships of Afghanistan 2022 It’s a scorching hot June afternoon in the middle of an Italian heatwave. There hasn’t been any rain for a month. But grey clouds are slowly rolling inContinue Reading
The US and a number of allied countries have called on the Taliban to stop the targeted killings of former members of the Afghan security forces. In a joint statement, the 22 nations demanded that the Islamist regime keep its promise not to harm the former government or security personnel.Continue Reading
The Taliban have decreed that they are banning the forced marriage of women in the war-torn country, in what appears to be a move to address criteria that developed nations consider a precondition to recognize their government and restore aid ByThe Associated Press December 3, 2021, 12:07 PM • 2Continue Reading
More than 100 former members of the Afghan security forces in four provinces have been killed or disappeared by the Taliban in the first two and a half months of the militants’ rule, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The deaths are part of a string ofContinue Reading
The announcement came as the United Arab Emirates negotiated with the Taliban to control Kabul’s airport. Afghan men stand at a torn poster of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at Kabul airport. The United Arab Emirates has banned former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani from participating in Afghan politics while living inContinue Reading
WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years ago, about 150 family members of Sept. 11 victims sought a measure of justice for their losses by suing a list of targets like Al Qaeda and the Taliban. A decade later, a court found the defendants liable by default and ordered them to payContinue Reading
Afghanistan’s Taliban prime minister is defending the group’s rule amid a worsening economic crisis ByThe Associated Press November 27, 2021, 6:40 PM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban prime minister defended the group’s rule in a public address Saturday, sayingContinue Reading