Tolo News: In 2025, Afghanistan experienced notable sporting developments and achievements alongside political, economic, social, and cultural events. During the year, Afghanistan’s under‑17 futsal team competed in the third Asian Youth Games in Bahrain and, after defeating Uzbekistan, Bahrain, China, Thailand, and Iran, won a historic gold medal. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama: Saturday marks the 46th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s military invasion of Afghanistan, a turning point that reshaped the country’s modern history and left lasting scars. On this day 46 years ago, the former Soviet Union’s 40th Army entered Afghanistan, triggering the early stages of occupation and immediate clashes with multiple armed resistance groups
Ariana: In a wide-ranging interview aired Monday on The Shawn Ryan Show podcast, the former first son described the execution of the Afghanistan withdrawal as a failure, while maintaining that ending the war itself was the right decision. “I think the failure — one of the failures — was the way in which they executed
Khaama: Vietnamese-American sculptor Tuan Andrew Nguyen will install an eight-meter replica of the Bamiyan Buddha along Tenth Street in Manhattan in spring 2026. Titled The Light That Shines Through the Universe, the sculpture is intended as a symbol of resilience, hope, and peace, commemorating the destroyed 6th-century statues in Afghanistan. The installation is part of
Amu: A new archaeological site believed to date back to the pre-Christian era was discovered in the eastern province of Laghman, the Taliban-run provincial culture department said in a statement on Sunday. The site was found in the Alingar district, in an area known as Situn village in the Saw valley, said statement said. Click
Afghanistan International: In August 2007, a Pakistani helicopter transferred about 27 detainees to Dera Ismail Khan before proceeding to Wana. One of the detainees on board was Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani. Last year, on December 11, he was killed by an ISIS suicide bomber inside his ministry, yet the ambiguous aspects of that incident remain unclear even
Defense one: More than $148 billion was spent by the U.S. government in its failed attempt to build a free Afghanistan, according to the final report by the official watchdog office, whose careful documentation of waste and fraud, and its warnings of Taliban resurgence, went largely unheeded. For 17 years, the Special Inspector General for
Afghanistan International: Former Pakistani senator Mushahid Hussain has said that an overwhelming majority of Afghans are dissatisfied with Taliban rule, describing the group’s governance as “medieval.” Hussain said Afghanistan’s current crisis dates back half a century to the overthrow of King Mohammad Zahir Shah. He argued that Zahir Shah had been the “axis of stability”
8am: For more than a century, since the reign of Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan politics has revolved around a recurring pattern: to preserve stability, the center of power co-opts part of the ethnic elite while sidelining the rest. I call this the “Abdur Rahman Scenario”: concentration at the center, concession at the margins, and the
Amu: Mohammad Rafi, a former Afghan defense minister and senior official in the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, died on Sunday in Germany at the age of 79 after a long illness, family members confirmed. Rafi played a role in the 1973 coup led by Mohammad Daoud Khan, which ended the monarchy and established Afghanistan’s