Tag: Afghanistan
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China says Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to explore a ‘comprehensive solution’
China’s government said Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed not to escalate their conflict and to “explore a comprehensive solution” after several weeks of cross-border fighting between ... -
Decorated veteran remains behind bars on Afghan war crime charges
Australia’s most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, did not apply for bail when the war crime murder charges against him were listed in a Sydney court ... -
Islamic State group claims blast on Chinese restaurant in Kabul
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least seven people, including a Chinese ... -
Pakistan, China call for ‘visible and verifiable’ steps against Afghan-based terror groups
Pakistan and China called for more “visible and verifiable” steps to eliminate terrorist organizations based in Afghanistan and to prevent Afghan territory from being used for ... -
Earthquake destroys villages and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured
Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in the dead of the night in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and ... -
Pakistan, China and Afghanistan hold high-level meeting in Kabul to boost cooperation
Top diplomats from Pakistan,China and Afghanistan committed their countries to stronger anti-terrorism cooperation during a meeting yesterday [Macau time] in Kabul aimed at boosting political and ... -
Female tour guides lead women-only groups as some travelers return
They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in theworld. ... -
With no access to education beyond the 6th grade, girls turn to religious schools
For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves. ... -
Travel ban may shut door for Afghan family to bring niece to US for a better life
Mohammad Sharafoddin, his wife and young son walked at times for 36 hours in a row over mountain passes as they left Afghanistan as refugees to ... -
The US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Haqqani, says Kabul
The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s ... -
Afghan women cannot pray loudly or recite in front of other women
Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister. It’s the latest restriction ... -
The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns, the UN says
The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said yesterday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of ... -
UAE accepts credentials of Taliban ambassador in a major diplomatic win for rulers
The United Arab Emirates accepted the credentials of the Taliban’s ambassador to the oil-rich Gulf Arab state, the biggest diplomatic coup for Afghanistan’s rulers who are ... -
Washington needs to take historical responsibility for war-torn Afghanistan
Washington can’t shake off its responsibility of amending the damage it had caused to Afghanistan, a call made by the Afghan public and the international community ... -
The Taliban are working to woo tourists to Afghanistan
Around 30 men are crammed into a Kabul classroom, part of the debut student cohort at a Taliban-run institute training tourism and hospitality professionals. It’s a ... -
Senior Taliban officials visit villages struck by earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people
A senior Taliban delegation was visiting western Afghanistan’s Herat province yesterday in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people over the ... -
As mental health worsens among women, the UN is asked to declare ‘gender apartheid’
The U.N.’s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid,” the ... -
Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, UN drug agency says
Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said yesterday [Macau time]. The country is also a major ... -
The Taliban two years of rule: Women and girls pay the price
The Taliban have settled in as rulers of Afghanistan, two years after they seized power as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew from the country following two ... -
UN urges Taliban to end floggings, executions
A U.N. report on Monday strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power in Afghanistan, and called on the country’s ... -
Taliban want control of more diplomatic missions
The Taliban government is trying to take charge of more Afghan embassies abroad, a spokesman said this weekend, amid their continued international isolation because of restrictions ... -
Ruling Taliban display rare division in public over bans
A rare public show of division within the ranks of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban emerged in recent days when Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful government figure, ... -
Islamic State group claims attack on hotel in Kabul
The militant Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a coordinated attack on a hotel in Afghanistan’s capital that left three assailants dead and at least ... -
Taliban arrest fashion model, say he ‘insulted’ Islam
The Taliban have arrested a well-known Afghan fashion model and three of his colleagues, accusing them of disrespecting Islam and the Quran, the Muslim holy book, ... -
Breaking News | Taliban form all-male Afghan government of old guard members
The Taliban today [Tuesday, local time] announced an all-male interim government for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the 1990s and the 20-year ... -
Taliban encounter Afghan cities remade in their absence
Ezanullah, one of thousands of young Taliban fighters from the countryside who rode into Afghanistan’s capital over the weekend, had never seen anything like it. The ... -
Afghanistan | Doctors Without Borders: 19 dead in clinic airstrike
Confusion reigned in the wake of the deadly bombing of a hospital compound in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz that killed at least 19 people ... -
Afghanistan | Suicide bomber hits European police in Kabul, 1 dead
A suicide car bomber struck near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul yesterday, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others ... -
Afghanistan | At least 50 dead in volleyball match suicide attack
The death toll in Afghanistan’s deadliest insurgent attack this year has risen to at least 50, with 63 wounded, many of them children, officials said yesterday, as NATO ... -
Offbeat: Errant Taliban tweet claims spokesman in Pakistan
An apparently errant tweet by the Taliban’s spokesman in Afghanistan gave his location as being in neighboring Pakistan. On Friday, a tweet by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah ... -
AFGHANISTAN | Kabul, US sign security pact to keep foreign troops
Afghanistan and the United States signed a security pact yesterday to allow U.S. forces to remain in the country past the end of year, ending a year ... -
AFGHANISTAN | Ashraf Ghani sworn in as president after disputed vote
Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in yesterday as Afghanistan’s new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer of power since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled ... -
AFGHANISTAN | New leader to name woman to Supreme Court
Afghanistan’s new president-elect says he wants Afghan women represented at the highest levels of government, including on the Supreme Court. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai planned to hold his ... -
AFGHANISTAN | Presidential candidates sign unity deal
Afghanistan’s two presidential candidates signed a power-sharing deal yesterday, capped with a hug and a handshake, three months after a disputed runoff that threatened to plunge ... -
AFGHANISTAN | Suicide bomber kills 3 NATO troops
A Taliban attacker detonated his car bomb next to an international military convoy yesterday, killing three troops from the NATO-led force and wounding nearly 20 troops ...
