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| Jan 22, 2025 | Time for a more realistic approach to Afghanistan | Taliban control over Afghanistan stands today virtually unchallenged. No political or military force appears likely to remove Taliban rule for the foreseeable future. Reacting to the regime’s policies, the United States and the internationa... |
| Aug 21, 2024 | Taliban bars UN human rights special rapporteur from Afghanistan: Report | KABUL: The Taliban have barred United Nations-appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, the administration's spokesperson told local broadcaster Tolo, accusing the human rights watchdog of "spreading propa... |
| Nov 3, 2023 | Chinese Tech Tied To Uighur Oppression Being Tapped By Taliban To Oppress Uighur Minority | The Chinese government has spent years placing its hands around the collective neck of its Uighur minority. For some reason, the massive government fears a small minority of Muslims and has subjected it to constant surveillance and outright... |
| May 2, 2023 | How Not to Negotiate With the Taliban | Since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the policy debate in Washington, D.C., and other Western capitals has focused on the merits of engaging in dialogue with the Taliban. Opponents of engagement point to the few gains that have been a... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Небезопасные талибы | На этой неделе в Москве пройдет встреча по Афганистану на уровне глав советов безопасности с участием представителей стран Центральной Азии, Пакистана, Индии и Китая. Пятый раунд консультаций секретарей совбезов созывается в условиях растущ... |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Taliban officials praise Afghanistan's first sports car. It has an engine from a 2000 Toyota Corolla. | Afghanistan unveiled a supercar that is powered by a 2000 Toyota Corolla engine. Bilal Buler and K. Y. Cheng/Getty Images
A team of engineers and designers built what may be Afghanistan's first sports car.
The car's power relies on a modded... |
| Dec 20, 2022 | Exclusive: Afghan government officials helped smugglers sneak almost $1 billion in cash and gold out of Afghanistan as the US-backed government neared collapse, documents show | During the final months of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, as the Taliban advanced on the capital, the elected government struggled to reassure its US patrons that it could maintain control. Yet at the same time, smugglers were illegal... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Charting a Path Forward for Afghanistan | Over the past year and a half of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the impasse in engagement between the Taliban and the international community has only worsened. Understandably, the brutal nature of the Taliban’s tactics, including the use of ... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Талибы создали женское подразделение полиции | Движение «Талибан» (признано террористическим и запрещено) создало в Афганистане женское подразделение национальной полиции. Для работы в подразделении привлекли женщин, которые работали в МВД до прихода талибов к власти. На данный момент о... |
| Jan 22, 2022 | Facing hunger, some desperate Afghans are selling their kidneys for money | Medical staff for Doctors Without Borders check a child for signs of malnutrition at a camp of internally displaced people near the city of Herat. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
A year ago, Kabul residents navigated blasts and roadside... |
| Nov 26, 2021 | Pakistan ‘welcomes’ second round of US-Taliban talks in Doha | Pakistan has “welcomed” a second round of talks between the United States and the Taliban since the latter’s takeover of Afghanistan earlier this year, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) spokesperson says.
Addressing a weekly press briefi... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | ‘Death knell’: Afghan journalists fear new Taliban media rules | In spite of Taliban promises of a “free and independent” media, journalists and media workers have faced detention, physical abuse and torture since the group took over Afghanistan six weeks ago.
Now a new set of media regulations issued ea... |
| Aug 17, 2021 | Taliban leader sits down with a female Afghan reporter for an in-person TV interview as part of the militant group’s effort to project moderation | A female TOLO News reporter interviews a Taliban official on Tuesday. Screenshot/TOLO News
A top Taliban official sat down with a female Afghan TV reporter for a live, in-person interview on Tuesday.
The highest ranks of Taliban leadership ... |
| Aug 8, 2021 | The Taliban Advance Escalates in Afghanistan | Biden Administration officials continue to insist that diplomacy is the only solution in Afghanistan. The Taliban has other ideas as its military advance continues over ever more Afghan territory and targets government officials who worked ... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | ‘Journalism is sacred work’: Afghanistan’s front line reporters | Kabul, Afghanistan – It was about 8am on a Monday morning in April 2018 when Bushra Seddique felt the multi-storey apartment building she was living in with her family in Kabul’s Shash Darak district shake. Smoke billowed from the street be... |
| May 7, 2021 | Afghanistan is being overrun by crystal meth | The US is leaving behind a flourishing, violent trade in heroin and crystal meth in Afghanistan.
The Om weed, which contains the key ingredient for making meth, grows wild in the mountains.
One in 10 Afghans are said to be involved in the d... |
| May 7, 2021 | Afghanistan is being overrun by crystal meth as US begins withdrawal | A man in central Herat, in western Afghanistan. Aref Karimi for Insider
The US is leaving behind a flourishing, violent trade in heroin and crystal meth in Afghanistan.
The Om weed, which contains the key ingredient for making meth, grows w... |
| Dec 30, 2020 | Child Kidnapping Is Posing a New Challenge to Afghanistan’s Beleaguered Police Force | “I am in cold weather. I am suffering. I cannot walk. My hands and feet are tied. Save me,” Abdul Rauf, a nine-year-old boy in Afghanistan’s Balkh province, says in a video released by his kidnappers this week.
Rauf’s father, Mohammad Nabi,... |
| Nov 18, 2020 | Where’s the U.S. Strategy for Counternarcotics in Afghanistan? | Back in September, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing examining the Trump administration’s strategy in Afghanistan. Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, and David Helvey, the official p... |
| Jul 10, 2020 | The Strategic Logic of Russia’s Bounty Policy | On June 26, the New York Times reported that Russian military intelligence (known as the GRU) had paid bounties to the Taliban in exchange for Taliban fighters targeting and killing U.S. and coalition forces. Other news organizations quickl... |
| Jul 5, 2020 | Afghanistan Between Negotiations: How the Doha Agreement Will Affect Intra-Afghan Peace | Editor’s Note: The U.S.-Afghan peace deal is a possible diplomatic triumph but also a possible disaster. Much depends on the weak Afghan government, the Taliban's willingness to abide by the agreement once U.S. forces depart and the willing... |
| May 17, 2020 | Can the Islamic State's Afghan Province Survive Its Leadership Losses? | Editor’s Note: The Islamic State in Afghanistan is one of the group’s most important “provinces,” and fighting it is a priority for the United States and its Afghan allies. The group has suffered several significant blows in recent months, ... |
| Mar 8, 2020 | Reading Between the Lines of Afghan Agreements | Editor’s Note: One of President Trump’s most significant foreign policy achievements may be the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Whether the U.S.-Taliban deal will hold is an open question, however. Elizabeth Threlkeld of the Sti... |
| Oct 6, 2019 | The ‘India Question’ in Afghanistan | Editor’s Note: Pakistan and the United States are not the only important outside actors in Afghanistan. India has long courted the government in Kabul, and Islamabad views this potential relationship with alarm. Avinash Paliwal of SOAS expl... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | At least 40 dead in a Taliban attack that used a captured Humvee | At least 45 people were killed and 70 wounded in a devastating Taliban attack on a military compound Monday, provincial officials said.
The final death toll could be even higher.
Militants used an American Humvee captured from Afghan forces... |
| Apr 17, 2017 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The looming showdown over North Korea is a “Cuban missile crisis in slow motion,” the New York Times reports. A ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Sunday morning following a military parade exploded shortly after being fired, a fa... |
| Mar 23, 2016 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The manhunt continues in Belgium, following yesterday’s attacks in Brussels that left 31 dead and 270 injured. The Zaventem airport and much of the Brussels subway system are expected to remain closed until Thursday as “Belgium remains in a... |
| Jan 7, 2016 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | After detection devices around the world picked up a 5.1 seismic event along North Korea’s northeast coast late Tuesday night, North Korea declared that it had tested its first ever hydrogen bomb. However, the White House said today that th... |
| Dec 16, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Los Angeles public schools were shut down today and all students and faculty were sent home after police received what they considered a credible bomb threat against the school system. The New York Times reports that, according to the Los A... |
| Dec 9, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | U.S. officials have denied Syrian accusations that U.S. coalition planes targeted a Syrian military base, and instead asserted that Russia was responsible for the strikes that killed four Syrian soldiers and wounded at least 13 others. Acco... |
| Dec 4, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Tashfeen Malik, the female suspect in the San Bernardino shooting that killed fourteen people, reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS via Facebook. Yet instead of taking directions from the group, one official suggested that authorities beli... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | After weeks of anticipation, a U.S. naval vessel sailed near the Subi Reef in the South China Sea’s Spratly Islands, challenging China’s expansive maritime claims in the region. The vessel, the USS Lassen, was accompanied by surveillance pl... |
| Oct 13, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Still reeling from Saturday’s twin suicide bombings which left at least 95 dead, Turkey has seen no respite from the intense political polarization that has recently gripped the country. The Times takes a look at the Turkish reaction to the... |
| Sep 28, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | On Friday, President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced an agreement to cease certain forms of economic espionage via cyberattack. The “common understanding” would require both nations to halt “cyber enabled theft of intellect... |
| Sep 11, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Today marks the 14th anniversary of 9/11, and before we dive into the latest news, we pause to remember those lost fourteen years ago, and to say thank you to all those who work daily to craft thoughtful security solutions. We are grateful,... |
| Sep 10, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The Islamic State is now ransoming two foreign hostages kidnapped in Syria, one Norwegian and one Chinese citizen. CNN reports that pictures posted in the latest issue of the group’s online magazine, Dabiq, appeared to show the two hostages... |
| Sep 1, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | We start today in Syria, where Islamic State forces have moved closer into central Damascus, displacing other Syrian rebels in their wake. According to the AFP, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that “this is the closest IS ha... |
| Aug 28, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | More news has come in on the discovery, made yesterday, of a truck filled with bodies abandoned east of Vienna. Austrian authorities have now counted 71 bodies believed to be refugees seeking asylum in western Europe, likely including some ... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Turkey and the United States have reached an agreement to conduct a joint “comprehensive” air campaign against ISIS, or so one side says. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced yesterday in an interview with Reuters that negoti... |
| Aug 21, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Continuing on its path of destruction, the Islamic State has demolished an ancient Christian monastery in central Syria, the Guardian tells us. Priests and activists say ISIS militants wrecked an Assyrian Catholic church inside the monaster... |
| Aug 11, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | We begin today with southeastern Turkey, where after two years of relative calm, violence has returned and “the tension is palpable” as conflict intensifies between the Kurds and the Turkish state. The latest clashes follow a suicide bombin... |
| Aug 10, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | A series of terror attacks rippled across Turkey early this morning. In Sirnak province, a majority-Kurdish region near the borders with Iraq and Syria, a roadside bombing and a separate attack on a military helicopter resulted in the death... |
| Aug 9, 2015 | Sorry, Folks: Things Are Not Actually Going So Great in Afghanistan | Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, we ran a provocative piece by Stephen Watts and Sean Mann in which they argued that in both its politics and in its development, Afghanistan is doing better than is commonly believed. Gary Owen, a civilian de... |
| Aug 7, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Top Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) dealt a blow to the Obama administration yesterday, posting a 1,600-word statement on the website Medium in which he revealed that “After deep study, careful thought and considerable soul-searchin... |
| Jul 29, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Reports indicate that longtime Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is dead… yet again. The initial reports came from the Wall Street Journal, where three anonymous Afghan officials and two individuals “close to the Taliban” indicated that O... |
| Jul 27, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Turkey has made a dramatic entrance into the war against the Islamic State. Following an agreement late last week about between Turkey and the United States to allow American forces to utilize a Turkish air base, officials in Washington and... |
| Jul 22, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The tension was palpable in a meeting yesterday between U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two discussed the Iran Deal, and ways to contain the Islamic Republic's support for proxy gro... |
| Jul 15, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | And so, with the close of nuclear negotiations with Iran, we begin to slog through the text of the deal itself and consider its implications. The UN Security Council will consider a resolution endorsing the deal next week, the BBC reports, ... |
| Jul 11, 2015 | Islamic State's Top Leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan Killed in Airstrike | VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog.
Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the so-called Islamic State's "Khurasan province" in Pakistan and Afghanistan, w... |
| Jul 9, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Once again and a week past deadline, we learn that nuclear negotiations with Iran may be nearing a conclusion. The AP reports on a series of “vague but seemingly hopeful pronouncements from participants,” including a late-night White House ... |
| Jul 6, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The vote count on the “greferendum” is in, and Greek citizens have decisively voted "no" (or "oxi"). Despite the potential for exorbitant fallout, the Greeks rejected the terms of an international bailout that would have... |
| Jun 25, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Earlier today, the Islamic State launched a new offensive effort on the town of Kobani along the Syrian-Turkish border, presumably in attempt to counter recent Kurdish advances on Tal Abyad and the jihadists' de facto capital of Raqqa. Koba... |
| May 24, 2015 | Dispatches Frontlines and faultlines on the world wide web Dateline: Afghanistan | Gandhara
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This week, Afghanistan has been in the news, with President Ashraf Ghani making a high-stakes bet on peace with the Taliban. Focussed on reportage from Pakistan’s north-west and Afghanistan, Gandhara — it ... |
| May 18, 2015 | Afghanistan's President Slams Reports Pakistan Will ‘Train and Equip’ Their Spy Agency | Afghanistan's president has denied recent media reports that Kabul will allow Pakistani intelligence to "train and equip" the National Directorate of Security (NDS), its domestic intelligence agency.
The initial report, published ... |
| Apr 26, 2015 | The Foreign Policy Essay: Explaining Pakistan’s Self-Defeating Afghanistan Policy | Editor’s Note: The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has long been ugly. Pakistan’s efforts to control and influence Afghanistan have played a major role in advancing radical groups like the Taliban and fomenting unrest in Pakis... |
| Mar 30, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Shots were fired this morning at Fort Meade after two people in a vehicle attempted to ram a gate leading to the National Security Agency. The Washington Post reports that one person was killed and at least one other injured. According to p... |
| Feb 24, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Islamic State militants abducted some 70 to 100 Syrian Christians yesterday in a series of raids in Hassakeh province. Neighbors, friends, and relatives are unsure who has been taken or what will be their fate. According to the Associated P... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Members of the Iranian parliament have introduced a bill that would nullify a 2013 interim nuclear deal if any new sanctions---which have already been proposed in the US Congress---are imposed on the country, the Associated Press reveals. I... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | In Washington, analysts and pundits are continuing to pick apart the resignation yesterday of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. In Foreign Policy, David Rothkopf argues that sacking Hagel is not a cure for President Obama’s foreign policy w... |
| Nov 24, 2014 | Afghanistan Never Really Banned Night Raids in the First Place | A report this week that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is lifting former President Hamid Karzai's ban on night raids by troops against Afghan homes will surprise no one more than it will members of the elite Crisis Response Units (CRU) of th... |
| Nov 23, 2014 | Obama's Secret Extension of the US Role in Afghanistan Should Come as No Surprise | President Barack Obama has reportedly issued a classified order to extend the role of the US military in Afghanistan in 2015. According to several unnamed officials who spoke with theNew York Times, the secret order gives Americans a direct... |
| Aug 31, 2014 | The Foreign Policy Essay: Why Iran Won’t Leave Afghanistan | Editor's Note: The United States plans to draw down its military forces in Afghanistan at the end of this year, and for most Americans, this move will put the conflict behind us. One country, however, will continue to play an active role: I... |
| Jul 31, 2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Today, McClatchy brings us breaking news on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). An internal CIA review concluded that, yes, CIA personnel improperly accessed computers used by staffers on the Senate Intelligence Committee, during th... |
| Taliban chief orders ‘strict’ ban on opium poppy cultivation | The Taliban has issued a decree banning the cultivation of opium poppy, as the group tries to assuage international concerns regarding drug control in the impoverished South Asian country.
“As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Isl... |
| В Афганистане заблокировали 23+ млн «неэтичных» сайтов | Отдел новостей 26 августа 2022, 10:28 В Афганистане заблокировали 23+ млн «неэтичных» сайтов
Правящий в Афганистане «Талибан» заблокировал 23,4 млн сайтов, сочтя их «неэтичными». Также в стране борются с распространением с нелегальных SIM-к... |
| Афганистан отложил освобождение талибов из-за недовольства ряда стран | Власти Афганистана приостановили процесс освобождения 400 оставшихся членов движения «Талибан» (запрещено в РФ) из-за претензий США, Франции и Австралии по некоторым персонам. Как сообщают источники афганского телеканала Tolo News, речь иде... |
| Facing hunger, some desperate Afghans are selling their kidneys for money | Five months into Taliban rule, millions of Afghans are don't have enough to eat.
Some Afghans tell Insider they have donated a kidney or donated dangerous amounts of blood out of desperation to feed their families.
The United Nations has wa... |
