What do you gain by attacking Shiites?
BY HAKKI ÖCAL COLUMNS OCT 18, 2021 “The bombs are exploding for one and only one purpose: to dampen the voice of wisdom” A bomb explodes at a mosque in Kandahar, […]
Afghanistan: US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad steps down after troops withdrawal
Published 1 hour ago War in Afghanistan (2001-present) The top US envoy to Afghanistan is stepping down from his role less than two months after American forces withdrew from the […]
Taliban warns of ban the PIA if PIA didn’t justify the Ticket price
October 14, 2021 Afghanistan’s Civil Aviation Administration in a statement said that Pakistan’s PIA and Afghanistan’s Kam Air will be banned to conduct flights from Kabul to Islamabad if they […]
Carnage in Kandahar
Carnage in Kandahar Editorial Published October 17, 2021 FOR the second time in a week, carnage has been visited upon Shia worshippers during Friday prayers in Afghanistan. Over 40 people were […]
Golden Visas for Refugees ‘We Are Trading the Borders Away’
Rich investors are able to buy their way into Europe. Why not refugees? A group of artists in Germany known as the Peng Collective is planning to flip the script […]
Last Jewish person in Afghanistan leaves after Turkey grants visa
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL TURKEY OCT 17, 2021 11:04 PM GMT+3Jewish man Zebulun Simantov (back seat, L), welcomed by Mendy Chitrik, the Ashkenazi rabbi of Istanbul, and some of his relatives in Istanbul, […]
U.S. offers payments, relocation to family of Afghans killed in botched drone attack
This content was published on October 16, 2021 By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a […]
Turkey avoids dealing unilaterally with Afghanistan dossier
SINEM CENGIZ October 16, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/cggmk As the world has become “a single country” in the last century, the issues of the countries not only concern them but […]
Saudi Arabia condemns attack targeting mosque in Afghanistan
A man sprays water to clean a street outside a Shiite mosque in Kandahar on October 15, 2021, after a suicide bomb attack during Friday prayers. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/rqh64 […]
Afghans search for escape routes to flee Taliban’s rule
BY AGENCIES ISTANBUL ASIA PACIFIC OCT 14, 2021 Najia (2nd L) poses with her family in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 1, 2021. (AP Photo) Afghans are looking for a way out of Afghanistan, mulling […]
Violence surges in Pakistan’s tribal belt as Taliban, IS-K go on attack
By Abid HussainBBC Urdu, Orakzai District Seventeen-year-old Israr was fast asleep when his phone rang. It was 2am and the teenager was exhausted. He’d been working all day as a […]
G20 leaders ‘laser-focused’ on anti-terrorism efforts in Afghanistan
Leaders of the world’s major economies including US President Joe Biden were discussing the situation in Afghanistan. (Reuters/File Photo) Short Url https://arab.news/b4g8t AGENCIES October 12, 2021 The G20 leaders also […]
Unstable neighbour
Unstable neighbour Touqir Hussain Published October 12, 2021 REGARDLESS of who ruled Afghanistan the country has always been a problem for Pakistan. And that will change little with the Taliban’s return to power. Since the overthrow of monarchy in Afghanistan and the wars that followed it is not just the Soviets […]
Afghanistan: Three Metro Detroit veterans share their perspectives
ELLEN PILIGIAN | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2021 Since the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan in late August, which ended a two-decade war, veterans across the country have been coming to terms with […]
US blame games vs unrecognised Pak sacrifices
National Senator A Rehman Malik October 11, 2021 It was good to see US Deputy Secretary of State Ms. Wendy R Sherman in Pakistan. Though the agenda of her visit […]
Tense Pak-US ties
Tense Pak-US ties EditorialPublished October 10, 2021 – IT is no secret that ties between Pakistan and the United States are going through a difficult phase. The recent visit to Pakistan of the US […]
The growing Taliban challenge
The growing Taliban challenge Muhammad Amir Rana Published October 3, 2021 THE reported upsurge in the TTP’s terrorist violence in Pakistan in recent months has coincided with the Afghan Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan […]
Cutting aid punishes Afghan people, not Taliban
BY NAGEHAN ALÇI COLUMNS OCT 09, 2021 Illustration by Erhan Yalvaç If the international community stops providing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, it will be punishing the long-suffering Afghan people rather than the […]
Daesh claims responsibility for Afghan Shiite mosque attack
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL ASIA PACIFIC OCT 08, 2021 9:42 PM GMT+3Taliban fighters investigate inside a Shiite mosque after a suicide bomb attack in Kunduz, Oct. 8, 2021. (AFP Photo) The Daesh terrorist […]
Taliban invokes Islam to weed out drugs from Afghanistan; war begins with shaved heads for addicts
The illicit opium trade in Afghanistan is intertwined with the country’s economy and its turmoil. Poppy growers are part of an important rural constituency for the Taliban, and most rely […]