Ariana: Afghanistan has won the first two of its matches in the ACBS 36th Asian Men’s Snooker Championship 2021. Afghan snooker player Raees Khan Sindzai won his first match against his rival from Bahrain with a score of 4-0. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Tajik Service September 13, 2021 DUSHANBE — Tajik authorities say they have accepted around 100 Afghan nationals from a group of more than 200 people, including many women and children, who crossed the border overnight to flee Afghanistan because of the Taliban’s takeover of the country. Multiple sources in the local government in Tajikistan’s
After undergoing the traumatic experience of leaving their home country, thousands of Afghans are relieved to be in the United States. Many are finding, however, that they have been granted temporary status, forbidding them to work or attend school. VOA’s Carolyn Presutti takes a look at how evacuees are coping with the lack of
VOA News September 12, 2021 Some Afghan pilots who have been held in Uzbekistan for about a month began leaving Sunday for the United Arab Emirate, Reuters reported. A U.S.-trained Afghan pilot told Reuters that one group would depart Uzbekistan on Sunday for the UAE under a U.S.-brokered deal, despite Taliban demands that they return
“Iran should not allow Pakistan to play the role of the U.S. in Afghanistan.” Iranian MP: Pakistan's ISI head is involved in #PanjshirValley offensive as well as the formation of the Taliban cabinet. pic.twitter.com/5FpUcQdLN9 — Tehran Times (@TehranTimes79) September 12, 2021
Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahman says he will not abandon the Afghan people "we are with you, don't worry, this too shall pass" following an Afghan singer's performance to mark Tajikistan's independence day pic.twitter.com/kr7qYxX7PJ — Yalda Hakim (@BBCYaldaHakim) September 12, 2021
Afghanistan Analysts Network: Set alongside their sustained military campaign in the Panjshir, the only province that held out against the Taleban takeover, and their violent response to protests across the country, it seems the movement’s priorities have coalesced – internal cohesion, monopolisation of power, silencing of open dissent and dividing the ‘spoils of war’, in