Ex-Australian soldier charged with war crime over Afghan killing
The 41-year-old man is the first serving or former member of the Australian defence forces to be charged with a war crime. Australia’s first soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan […]
Why asylum in Switzerland remains elusive for Afghan refugees
Foreign affairs Despite the deteriorating human rights situation in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, Swiss authorities continue to turn away the vast majority of Afghans seeking protection – a policy […]
Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths
TOPICSSocial Sciences DATESeptember 1, 2021 MEDIA CONTACT Jill Kimballjill_kimball@brown.edu401-863-5450 A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the […]
Afghan broadcaster airs rare all-female panel to discuss rights on Women’s Day
PUBLISHED 09 MAR, 2023 REUTERS With surgical masks on their faces, they discussed the position of women in Islam. Afghan broadcaster Tolo News on Wednesday aired an all-female panel in its studio with […]
How the US lost the plot in Afghanistan
LUKE COFFEY March 10, 2023 The new Republican-controlled House of Representatives has begun its investigation into America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. The chairman of the House Foreign […]
Britain promised to move heaven and earth for all who helped us in Afghanistan. It wasn’t true
OpinionAfghanistan Dan Jarvis The UK is shirking its responsibility – and by losing focus on that unstable country, is putting us at risk all over againThu 9 Mar 2023 08.00 […]
Chomsky & Afghanistan
Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Published February 24, 2023 NOAM Chomsky the humanitarian activist, political analyst and teacher, founder of modern linguistics, philosopher of the mind and cognitive psychology has been educating the world […]
Afghanistan shuts vital border-crossing with Pakistan, residents report shots fired
Taliban security personnel patrol after clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan forces at Torkham border crossing, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Feb. 20, 2023. (AFP) Updated 20 February 2023 PARWIZ KAROKHAIL/REHMAT MEHSUD February […]
Afghanistan needs its women working, not confined to homes
DR. BASHAYER AL-MAJED February 19, 2023 Three years ago — a year prior to taking control of Afghanistan — the deputy leader of the Taliban made a statement via an […]
What Ukraine needs to learn from Afghanistan
Feb 14,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Jeffrey D. Sachs The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world slips further into global conflict, our economic hopes and our […]
Double standards on war crimes, from Afghanistan to Ukraine
by Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan April 7, 2022 We need a uniform standard of justice to hold accountable perpetrators of war crimes, wherever they may occur. In early April, shocking video surfaced […]
Swiss reject vast majority of Afghan visa applications
Foreign affairs Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in summer 2021, the number of applications for humanitarian visas in Switzerland has increased massively. Only a small fraction are approved, […]
Abdul Wasi Safi’s trauma a reminder of Biden’s Afghanistan failure
DALIA AL-AQIDI January 29, 2023 Abdul Wasi Safi is a 27-year-old Afghan man who worked as an intelligence officer for Afghanistan’s National Security Forces until 2021, when he fled his home country following the withdrawal of US forces. Safi was a little boy when Afghanistan was liberated from the grip […]
Top UN woman urges Muslims: Move Taliban into 21st century
1 / 2 UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed says Muslim countries need to help Afhanistan’s Taliban rulers to move from the “13th century to the 21st.” (AFP file) 2 / 2 In […]
Afghan women share what their lives are really like under the Taliban
BBC News Reporting by Aakriti Thapar, Mahfouz Zubaide and Andrew Clarance Play video ‘I wish God had never created women’ from BBC’I wish God had never created women’ Play video […]
Afghanistan: Changing the Taliban’s mentality toward women will not be easy
MAHA AKEEL January 21, 2023 Bringing attention back to Afghanistan, the Taliban shocked the world last month with the absurd order to local and foreign aid organizations to stop employing […]
Afghan memories …
As the readers of The Muslim Times may recall I lived and worked in Afghanistan for 3 1/2 years in 1969 to 1972. see https://themuslimtimes.info/2017/08/19/glimpses-into-the-life-of-a-global-nomad-part-four/ Today I would just like […]
Afghanistan: UN’s top women meet Taliban over female aid worker ban
By Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent @bbclysedoucet In a country where women are barred from university and secondary schools, and banned from many workplaces, the world’s biggest aid operation is […]
Afghans braving severe cold face stark choice: Food or warmth
Many provinces in Afghanistan have seen an exceptionally cold winter, with temperatures dropping to as low as -21 degrees Celsius. By Ruchi Kumar Published On 17 Jan 202317 Jan 2023 The […]
One Afghan refugee’s stunning photographs of the country’s ‘many stories that need to be told’
Two girls in Daikundi province, Afghanistan. Muzafar Ali wanted to capture the beauty of his country through photography before it was destroyed by the Taliban. Photograph: Muzafar Ali/The Guardian When […]