Taliban crackdown on rights is ‘suffocating’ women: Amnesty
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD JUL 27, 2022 – DAILY SABAH Afghan women chant and hold signs of protest during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2022. (AP Photo) The lives […]
Voices from Afghanistan
Masom Jan Masomy With the Taliban coming to power, the regional countries except India have increased their political, economic and security contacts with the Taliban. One of the fears was […]
One Hijabi at a time: Fatima Payman becomes first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in Australian parliament
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: If Muslims can control their Taliban and let their women flourish and overcome sectarianism, Many of the democratic Islamic values will win during this […]
US Senate passes bill to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits
The bill would benefit some 3.5 million veterans who developed cancer and other illnesses after being exposed to fumes. Published On 16 Jun 202216 Jun 2022 The United States Senate […]
UN human rights chief decries suppression of women in Afghanistan
BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE – AFP GENEVA JUN 15, 2022 – An Afghan girl reads a book inside her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 13, 2022. (Reuters Photo) The United Nations human […]
Stuck in limbo in Kosovo camp, Afghan evacuees await entry to the U.S.
Ben Fox, Associated PressL World Jun 5, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — For some Afghans who were evacuated as their country fell to the Taliban last summer, the journey to the United […]
Wars don’t end for abandoned American allies
CONGRESS BLOG BY JOSEPH M. AZAM, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR – 06/03/22 Hours after the last C-17 transport jet departed Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport last Aug. 31, President Joe Biden addressed the nation […]
The West has a hand in Afghanistan’s bleak state
Analysis by Ishaan TharoorColumnist June 1, 2022 You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and […]
Criticism of Western double standards over Ukraine ‘fair’: RUSI chief
Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Karin von Hippel speaking at the World Economic Forum. (Supplied/WEF) Short Url https://arab.news/25e92 Updated 11 sec ago DANIEL FOUNTAIN May 24, 2022 […]
TTP peace talks
TTP peace talks Editorial Published May 20, 2022 – ANOTHER attempt to sue for peace with the outlawed TTP is being made, again facilitated by the Afghan Taliban that rule Kabul. According to a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban, there has been “significant progress” in talks between the government and the TTP […]
Afghanistan: The secret girls school defying the Taliban
By Secunder KermaniBBC News, Kabu Published11 hours ago Hidden away in a residential neighbourhood is one of Afghanistan’s new “secret” schools – a small but powerful act of defiance against […]
Taliban shut down Afghan human rights body
Taliban shut down Afghan human rights body AFP Published May 18, 2022 KABUL: Taliban authorities on Tuesday said they had dissolved Afghanistan’s independent human rights commission as it was “not considered necessary”. Since the Taliban seized power last August, they have closed several bodies that protected the freedoms of Afghans, including the […]
A new age of transnational terrorism threatens the West after Ukraine’s foreign fighters return
May 7, 2022 at 2:36 pm | Published in: Afghanistan, Africa, Article, Asia & Americas, EU, Europe & Russia, International Organisations, Libya, Middle East, Opinion, Russia, Syria, UK, Ukraine Former Guantanamo Bay detainee British citizen Moazzam Begg arrives at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in […]
The Last Way Out of Afghanistan
Escaping the Taliban The Last Way Out of Afghanistan Every day, thousands of people are fleeing the Taliban through the last open route out of Afghanistan. It’s their last hope […]
Afghan women footballers in exile fight to keep their sports dreams alive
Source: Swiss Info After the Taliban returned to power last August, Khalida Popal, former captain of Afghanistan’s national women’s football team, urged female players to burn all evidence of their […]
OIC has key role to play in Afghan girls’ future
MAHA AKEEL April 27, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/rtt2f Afghanistan’s schoolgirls suffered a heartbreaking moment last month, when the Taliban reneged on their decision to allow them to return to school […]
US Commission: Afghanistan Worst Violation of Religious Freedom in the World
11 minutes ago Associated Press The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom said Monday that Afghanistan is now on the list of the world’s worst religious freedom violators. The […]
Taliban’s broken promises leave Afghanistan’s girls and women in despair
Afghan women protest outside the Ministry of Education. (AFP file photo) Short Url https://arab.news/jjuef REBECCA ANNE PROCTOR April 22, 2022 Continued ban on girls’ secondary education among other repressive steps […]
Iran calls terrorist attacks in different Afghan cities ‘disgusting’
Politics April 22, 2022 – TEHRAN TIMES TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has expressed Tehran’s deep concern over repeated bitter terrorist attacks in different cities in Afghanistan. […]
Afghan women disenfranchised and removed from public life
ZAID M. BELBAGI April 14, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/vtrr5 The Taliban’s effortless takeover of Kabul last summer perplexed many as, after two decades out of power, the militant group initially […]