News Afghanistan Laghman: Bayat Foundation continues Ramadan campaign, provides aid to Laghman families
Haji Mohammad Ismail, Deputy of the Bayat Foundation, said the program reflects the organization’s long-standing commitment to supporting vulnerable communities.
News Afghanistan Laghman: Taliban: Kabul checkpoint bomb blast kills, wounds several
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul's military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding “several” people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the regional affiliate of the Islamic State group — known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province — has increased its attacks since the Taliban takeover in 2021. Targets...
News Afghanistan Laghman: Canada Reviews Counterterror Laws to Aid Taliban-Run Afghanistan
The Canadian government might have a lot of disagreements with the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan but it is ... “We face a daunting financial challenge as we enter 2023.
News Afghanistan Laghman: Taliban bar women from university education in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned female students from attending universities effective immediately in the latest edict cracking down on women's rights and ...
News Afghanistan Laghman: Remember the Afghanistan Withdrawal?
A reader says that he is “over” certain issues that might be further investigated, among them the Afghanistan withdrawal (Letters, Dec. 20). There was a time in the not-so-distant past when ...
News Afghanistan Laghman: Major foreign aid groups suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bars female employees
At least half a dozen major foreign aid groups have said they are temporarily suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban barred female employees of non-governmental organizations from coming to work.
News Afghanistan Laghman: Nuristan forest fire rages for the 11th day
As firefighters battle a wildfire in Afghanistan’s eastern Nuristan province officials said Thursday that the blaze has been brought under control by about 90 percent. The fire, which has raged for 11 days, has destroyed about 200 acres of forest. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained but locals say a clash between
News Afghanistan Laghman: Afghanistan opposition claims hundreds of Taliban defecting in fierce fighting in north
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) - Afghanistan's opposition claimed Sunday that hundreds of Taliban soldiers had defected during three days of fierce fighting in the country's northern mountains that have seen
News Afghanistan Laghman: Former Afghan minister returns to Kabul at Taliban invitation
A former Afghan minister, who fled as the Taliban took over Afghanistan last year, returned on Wednesday, officials said, following security assurances given as part of the hardline group's initiative to woo back high-profile individuals. Ghulam Farooq Wardak, a member of the cabinets of former presidents Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani, is the latest in a string of returning officials, said Taliban officials looking to shore up a government yet to win international recognition. Wardak had returned from Turkey, said Ahmad Wasiq, the spokesman of a body set up by the Taliban to negotiate the return of high-profile Afghans abroad.
News Afghanistan Laghman: Guardsmen heading to Afghanistan
After arriving in Afghanistan, the soldiers will convoy to Laghman Province to provide ... make the Tahoe Tribune's work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver ...
News Afghanistan Laghman: Biden team needs to help the starving and the hunted in Afghanistan — now
His family is in danger because several of them worked with Americans on anti-corruption and women’s rights issues before the U.S. withdrew troops from Afghanistan in August, leaving them behind.
