News Afghanistan Financial: Welcome to America: Refugees from wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine get help starting anew in Georgia
New Americans Celebration drew about 300 case workers, advocates and allies to the state Capitol this month to welcome resettled refugees and immigrants to Georgia. The Coalition […] ...
News Afghanistan Financial: SOLA: Daring to educate Afghanistan's girls
Since Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban, girls have been prohibited from attending school beyond sixth grade. SOLA, the School of Leadership Afghanistan, is still teaching its students, though, after a daring evacuation to safety.
News Afghanistan Financial: Afghanistan IG calls for more oversight to prevent fraud, avoid 'significant mistakes' in $133B Ukrainian aid
As the U.S. commits to support Ukraine no matter how long it takes, some in government are asking: Did America learn its lessons from Afghanistan? Ukraine is not Afghanistan, but in terms of how ...
News Afghanistan Financial: Munich Security Conference discusses Afghanistan dilemma
Western powers and Afghanistan's neighboring countries are still not united on how to deal with the Taliban regime in Kabul. Both engagement and nonengagement have their pros and cons.International leaders agree that the Taliban are violating fundamental human rights of Afghans. All hell broke loose when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August...
News Afghanistan Financial: 9/11 victims denied right to claim compensation from $3.5bn in frozen Afghanistan assets
No nation has vouched for the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate rulers ... lacked jurisdiction over DAB under federal law as the financial institution was an instrumentality of a foreign ...
News Afghanistan Financial: Ukraine: U.S. Military Aid Exceeds Costs of Afghanistan
Ukraine receives the most military aid from the United States: Since the beginning of the war and as of Jan. 15, 2023, $47 billion in financial aid for military ... expenditure of the U.S. in the war ...
News Afghanistan Financial: Asia Cup 2022: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, clash of final 4
Asia Cup 2022: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are the final four teams that have qualified for the super 4 round of the Asia Cup. Bangladesh and Hong Kong have crashed out.
News Afghanistan Financial: Afghanistan: The United States Must Stay Engaged
Nor does the Taliban give priority to concerns raised by the United States and others in the international community. There is clear evidence that the Taliban are providing a haven to terrorist ...
News Afghanistan Financial: For women allies left behind in Afghanistan, life is hell
Narges Hussaini and her family traveled to Herat, Afghanistan, on August 13, 2021. As a former female employee with the Ministry of the Interior, she knew she could face retribution when her country ...
News Afghanistan Financial: Senior Biden Aide Hints At Financial Consequences For Taliban Rights Abuses
A senior aide to U.S. President Joe Biden has hinted that the Taliban could face financial consequences for human rights violations. In his first broadcast interview since his appointment last year, Rob Berschinski, special assistant to the president, said, "We're going to hold them to their word" on human rights pledges' made during talks on the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Berschinski, who is also senior director for human rights on the National Security Council, spoke to RFE/RL's Ray Furlong in Prague on August 31.
News Afghanistan Financial: One year since the US military's withdrawal from Afghanistan
The Afghan withdrawal represented a debacle for US imperialism, which based its policy throughout thirty years of uninterrupted wars, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1990-91, on the conviction that military force could overcome Washington’s precipitous economic decline.
News Afghanistan Financial: A terror network’s struggle for influence in Afghanistan
The presence of al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, under the protection of the Taliban in a luxury villa in Kabul raises important questions about who is actually running the country and what this means for U.S. and allied interests. When U.S. forces killed al-Zawahiri on July 31, he was not just visiting Afghanistan’s capital city.…
News Afghanistan Financial: Where Things Stand in Afghanistan One Year After the U.S. Withdrawal—and What Could Happen Next
The first year since the Taliban took over Kabul has been marked by a dire economic crisis and severe restrictions on women and minorities ...
News Afghanistan Financial: Afghanistan: Kabul witnessing rise in women street vendors
Kabul: Kabul city is witnessing a rise in women vendors amid rising poverty in Afghanistan following the takeover of the country by Taliban forces.
News Afghanistan Financial: How the Taliban has changed Afghanistan, a year after taking power
The Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021, 20 years after their ouster by U.S. troops. Under their harsh rule, they have cracked down on women’s rights and neglected basic services.
News Afghanistan Financial: 'Catastrophe': Russia Asks US To Admit Its Military Effort In Afghanistan Was 'failure'
The Russian embassy said the American government must accept that the military effort in Afghanistan was a failure, bringing 'agony' to the Asian nation.
News Afghanistan Financial: Russia Targets US Over Financial Support For Afghanistan; 'It Is You Who Must Pay...'
Russia's UN ambassador asked US to pay back the money that had been taken from the Afghan people rather than demanding other nations to pay for their debts.
News Afghanistan Financial: Eliminating Sanctions On the Taliban Won’t Solve Afghanistan’s Deepening Humanitarian Crisis
Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, the country has been mired in a severe humanitarian crisis that could devolve into one of the worst ...
