News Afghanistan Credit: Santa Barbara-Based Afghanistan Dental Project Opens New Clinic After Old Location Seized by Taliban
The organization started by a local dentist was overtaken by the Taliban who took control of Afghanistan a year and a half ago.
News Afghanistan Credit: A Rare Glimpse into Afghanistan’s Spectacular, Vanishing Forests
Eastern Afghanistan’s province of Nuristan is a green oasis in a country largely in the grip of desertification. The area is replete with tree-covered mountains and clear rivers that wind through lush ...
News Afghanistan Credit: Taliban unaware it killed alleged planner of Kabul airport bombing that left 13 Americans dead: US official
While officials, such as White House spokesman John Kirby and Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, have publicly stated the U.S. had no role in the Taliban operation that they say killed the ...
News Afghanistan Credit: Afghan Women Who Fought With U.S. Military Seek Legal Immigration Status
Members of an all-female tactical combat unit in Afghanistan, who were evacuated during the United States withdrawal, are asking Congress to grant them permanent legal status.
News Afghanistan Credit: "Deeply alarmed": UNSC on Taliban's suspension of access to universities for women, girls in Afghanistan
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday said that it is "deeply alarmed" by the reports that the Taliban have prohibited women and girls from attending universities, and it reiterated its serious concerns regarding the Taliban's decision to close all schools up to and including the sixth grade.
News Afghanistan Credit: Women fear they are disappearing from Afghan society
Afghan women protest against their erasure from public life in Kabul on December 22, 2022. Women are protesting in Afghanistan after the Taliban banned them from universities and work at ...
News Afghanistan Credit: Without Women, Afghanistan Has No Future
In December 2022, the Taliban, the de facto authority in Afghanistan, banned women from public and private universities until further notice. Reportedly, this decision was partly due to female students allegedly not adhering to the Taliban interpretation of the Islamic dress code.
News Afghanistan Credit: Aid Groups in Afghanistan Suspend Work After Taliban Bar Female Staff
The government’s decree, barring women from work in local and international relief organizations, threatens critical assistance for millions of people.
News Afghanistan Credit: Biden deserves credit for decisions on Ukraine, Afghanistan
There are two foreign policy reasons President Joe Biden and his Administration deserve a lot of credit. First ... And that is to pull us out of Afghanistan. That withdrawal in August 2021 ...
News Afghanistan Credit: 'We can’t grow anything': Five million children near starvation in Afghanistan amid worst drought since records began
Experts say climate change has contributed to the worst drought in the war-ravaged nation since records began, with families having to sell farm animals - and in some cases their children - to stave off starvation.
News Afghanistan Credit: Explosion hits Shi'ite mosque in Afghanistan; at least 10 killed
Dasht-e-Barchi and other parts of western Kabul are houses to the Shiite minorities of Afghanistan which have mostly been targeted by the Islamic State affiliate loyalists, however, no one has claimed ...
News Afghanistan Credit: Blasts across Afghanistan kill at least 10, injure dozens
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A series of explosions across Afghanistan on Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded scores more, according to police and hospital officials. No one immediately took responsibility for the deadly explosions, but they mostly targeted the country’s minority Shiite Muslims and had all the hallmarks of a deadly Islamic State affiliate known as Islamic State in Khorasan Province, or IS-K. The worst of the three...
News Afghanistan Credit: Explosion in north Afghanistan kills at least 10, injures 40
A series of explosions across Afghanistan Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded scores more. No one immediately took responsibility for the deadly explosions but they mostly targeted the country's minority Shiite Muslims. The worst of the three attacks occurred in northern Mazar-e-Sharif where at least 10 worshippers were killed as they knelt in prayer. Dr. Ghawsuddin Anwari, head of the main hospital in northern Mazar-e-Sharif, says another 40 were injured. It was the worst of three attacks on Thursday. Earlier in the capital, Kabul, a roadside bomb exploded and injured two children. A third blast, this one in northern Kunduz province, struck a vehicle carrying mechanics.
News Afghanistan Credit: India, Central Asian Leaders Discuss Aid to Afghanistan
At a recent virtual summit, India and five Central Asian countries decided to form joint working groups on Afghanistan and Chabahar port.
News Afghanistan Credit: Afghanistan Humanitarian Crisis: Civilians Sell Organs, Children To Buy Food Under Taliban
Members in a struggling family in Afghanistan underwent surgery and sold their kidneys for around Rs 1,15,461 ($1,539) each in order to afford food ...
