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Turkey’s Engagement With Afghanistan Has Grown Since Taliban Takeover

12th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Ezel Sahinkaya VOA News August 12, 2022 WASHINGTON — While many countries cut diplomatic ties with Afghanistan after the Taliban’s return to power last year, Turkey, the only NATO member with a diplomatic presence in the war-torn country, has been active on many fronts. Recently, the second phase of the Kajaki hydroelectric dam in Helmand province

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Posted in Economic News, Refugees and Migrants, Taliban, Turkey-Afghanistan Relations |
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Survey: Journalism Is ‘Decimated’ in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

12th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Ayaz Gul VOA News August 12, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A survey finds that Afghanistan has lost nearly 60 percent of its journalists, especially women reporters, and 40 percent of its national media outlets since the Taliban regained control of the country a year ago. “All this has happened amid a deep economic crisis and crackdown on

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Posted in Censorship, Media, Taliban | Tags: Afghan Journalists, Freedom of Speech, Life under Taliban rule, Press Freedom |
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Brain Drained: Exodus Of Professionals Since Taliban Takeover Leaves Afghanistan Starting From Scratch Again

12th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

By Michael Scollon RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi August 12, 2022 Ahmad Ghani Khosrawi dedicated two decades of his life to restoring Afghanistan’s education system, only to find himself rebuilding his career abroad following the country’s return to Taliban rule. In leaving for Germany, Khosrawi, who headed the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at Herat University, joined the

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Posted in Afghan Women, Economic News, Everyday Life, Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants, Society, Taliban | Tags: Afghan brain drain, Escape from the Taliban, Taliban government failure |
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A Year After US Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Some Frustrated at Lack of Lessons Learned

12th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Patsy Widakuswara VOA News August 12, 2022 WHITE HOUSE — On July 21st, 41 consular and diplomatic security officers of the U.S. State Department were given the agency’s prestigious Award for Heroism for assisting in the relocation of 124,000 people from Kabul in August 2021, including American citizens, legal permanent residents and tens of thousands of

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Posted in History, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Escape from the Taliban, US betrayal of Afghans |
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1TV Afghanistan Dari News – August 12, 2022

12th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment
Posted in News in Dari (Persian/Farsi) |
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Mysterious fires destroy dozens of homes in Jowzjan

12th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Ariana: More than 50 homes have been destroyed by mysterious fires in a village in Afghanistan’s northern Jowzjan province, officials said this week. The fires have happened in Bala Mardian village of Faizabad district. Sirajuddin Ahmadi, police chief of Jowzjan, said that the fires are increasing day by day. There are no reports of deaths

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Posted in Economic News, Other News | Tags: Jowzjan |
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Taliban Arrest Six Residents of Panjshir Province in House-to-House Search Operations in Kabul

12th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

8am: Sources in Kabul report the start of house-to-house search operations by the Taliban for the second time. The Taliban started a house-to-house raid on Thursday (August 11th) in the Gozargah and Dehmzang neighborhoods of ​​Kabul and continued until the evening of the same day. Sources add that the Taliban have arrested six residents of

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Taliban home raids |
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‘The Catastrophe They Have Created’: HRW Urges Afghan Taliban To Reverse Course On Human Rights

11th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty August 11, 2022 The unrecognized Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have imposed severe restrictions on human and civil rights in the year since they took over de facto control of the country and must reverse course to avert a humanitarian disaster, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) monitoring group has asserted. “The

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Posted in Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule |
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A Q&A with General Frank McKenzie

11th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

Politico: Seligman: Why did they collapse? We spent so long training the Afghans and then as soon as we were gone, they fell. How did that happen? McKenzie: I believe the proximate defeat mechanism was the Doha negotiations [on a peace deal]. I believe that the Afghan government began to believe we were getting ready to leave.

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: US betrayal of Afghans |
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Afghanistan’s Bare Dastarkhaans Reveal Rising Poverty, Hunger Under The Taliban

11th August, 2022 · admin · Leave a comment

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 triggered the collapse of Afghanistan’s aid-dependent economy, leading to rising food prices and soaring unemployment. The economic crunch has fueled a hunger crisis in the country of some 40 million people. According to the United Nations, a staggering 95 percent of Afghans are not getting enough to

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Posted in Economic News, Taliban | Tags: Life under Taliban rule, Malnutrition, Taliban government failure |
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