Source: ET I’ve been advocating for the inclusion of women in all fields for over a decade with some of my fellow activists and now it seems like we’ve need to pause, because we’ve perhaps preached to an unwanted foe — the Taliban. In a glossy, glamouresque magazine called Sunnat-e-Khaula, the […]
Source: The Local German media reported on Wednesday that the government will for now end controversial mass deportations of Afghan asylum seekers, and only deport people in certain cases. The Interior Ministry and Foreign Ministry have agreed that refugees from Afghanistan will only be deported on an exceptional basis, according […]
Source: BBC News An explosion at a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat has killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more. The blast, which struck the Jawadia […]
Whatever one thinks of Pakistan’s former prime minister, the circumstances of his ouster are troubling. By Mihir Sharma, 67, 28 July 2017, 06:46 GMT-4 https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-28/nawaz-sharif-s-ouster-in-pakistan-isn-t-good-news-for-anyone ong>In Pakistan’s 70 years of existence, not one prime minister has served a full five-year term. They’ve been fired by governor-generals and army chiefs and […]
Source: ET The militants “attacked an army camp in Karzali area of Khakrez district of Kandahar last night,” MoD spokesman General Dawlat Waziri said. Afghan soldiers “bravely resisted”, he said, killing more than 80 insurgents. Residents in the area described an hours-long attack launched by a 30-strong convoy carrying “hundreds” of Taliban […]
Source: CNN At least 24 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in Kabul on Monday morning, according to an Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman. At least 42 others were injured in the blast. The blast occurred around 6:40 a.m. local time (10:10 pm ET), when a Toyota Corolla exploded […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP Hospital staff of Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) stand outside the MSF clinic in Kunduz, Afghanistan, 22 July 2017. (EPA Photo) Medecins Sans Frontiers in Afghanistan on Saturday reopened a small medical clinic in northern Kunduz province where nearly two years ago a US airstrike destroyed […]
Source: Dunya News KANDAHAR (AFP) – A US airstrike killed 16 Afghan police and wounded two others in Helmand province, officials said Saturday. The incident took place Friday 5 pm as Afghan security forces were clearing a village of Taliban elements, Salam Afghan, Helmand police spokesman, told AFP. “In the […]
John R. Allen, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Tanvi Madan, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Tarun Chhabra, and Bruce Jones July 2017 Download the full report Authors John R. Allen Chair, Security and Strategy Distinguished Fellow in Residence –Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence Vanda Felbab-Brown Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, […]
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES Members of Afghan robotics girls team arrive to receive their visas from the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan July 13, 2017. (REUTERS Photo) Afghanistan’s all girls […]
Reuters International JULY 4, 2017 Members of Afghan robotics girls team which was denied entry into the United States for a competition, work on their robots in Herat […]
Source: BBC News By Bill Hicks BBC Global education Image captionTeach for Afghanistan wants to make sure that girls have an equal chance of going to school The idea of […]
Source:BBC Suicide bombers have killed at least six people at the funeral in Kabul of a man who died during a protest on Friday, Afghan officials say. Dozens were wounded in the blasts, which hit the funeral of one of five people killed when police fired on a protest against […]
Source: The Local Germany has temporarily suspended the group deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers following the Kabul truck bomb attack, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. The foreign ministry would reassess security in the country by July, and until then Germany would carry out only “voluntary repatriations and deportations […]
Source: CNN Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)A huge suicide bomb ripped through a secure area of Kabul at the height of the Wednesday morning rush hour, killing at least 80 people and […]
Source: BBC A powerful vehicle bomb has hit the diplomatic area of the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 80 people and injuring 350. It struck near Zanbaq Square in […]
Source: The Local The German embassy was massively damaged and workers were injured in a vehicle bomb attack in the Afghan capital on Wednesday morning that has killed at least 80 people. In one of the worst attacks in Kabul in recent years, the German embassy was hit hard, with […]
Source: CNN A number of insurgents have attacked a building housing a state TV station in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, police tell CNN.An explosion was heard from the vicinity after the insurgents entered the building, Nangarhar police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal said Wednesday.The situation is ongoing. More:
By AFP – Apr 24,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Twenty-three-year old Islam Maytat from Morocco poses for a photo with her children Maria (left) and Abdullah in the Kurdish-majority city […]
by Haider Ali Sindhu | Published on April 15, 2017 🔗 WASHINGTON – Although the international media is beating drums after dropping of largest ever non-nuclear bomb ‘MOAB’ by US in […]