The National Interest: The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan led by Ahmad Massoud, the son of the late Afghan war hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, is the last remaining ally resolved to fight against terror groups in Afghanistan. It is today the only alternative. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 14, 2021 The United Nations says the first four months of Taliban rule in Afghanistan have been marked by “credible allegations” of more than 100 extrajudicial killings, the denial of women’s rights, and the recruitment of boys to be soldiers. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on December
Aamaj: The Wall Street Journal reported that Iran deports thousands of Afghan refugees who have fled the Taliban and poverty. “People are simply being dumped on the border” by Iranian authorities, a United Nations official said. “The percentage of deportations is rising dramatically since the takeover by the Taliban,” the official said to the Wall
8am: In an exclusive interview with the Associated Press, the acting foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi has said that the Taliban is seeking good relations with countries around the world, especially the United States, stressing that the US will slowly change its policy towards Afghanistan. The Taliban wants
8am: The Taliban-led government has asked businessmen and shopkeepers in Pul-e-Alam, Logar, to offer their daily prayers in congregations and mosques. The Department of Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil has also instructed the barbershops in the city of Pul-e-Alam that taking money and shaving the beard is forbidden and should be avoided. Click
AFP: Four years ago, Afghan film director Salim Shaheen was in the spotlight at Cannes, but now he spends his days confined to his home, afraid of the new Taliban regime and their clampdown on arts and music. Click here to read more (external link).
The New Yorker: A trove of unreleased documents reveals a dispiriting record of misjudgment, hubris, and delusion that led to the fall of the Western-backed government. Rahimi told Ghani that the Taliban had pledged not to enter Kabul. Yet this was based on assurances from Khalilzad and the Taliban, and Ghani regarded both as unreliable
8am: The National Radio and Television of Afghanistan (RTA) has reported that India’s first cargo of humanitarian aid has arrived in Kabul. The aid includes 7.5 tons of medicine and was handed over to Taliban officials at Kabul airport today Saturday, December 11, RTA confirmed. Click here to read more (external link). Related Heartbreaking images
The Insider: Trump was apparently willing to offer US funds to the Taliban — a group that fought against America and its allies for years in a war that claimed the lives of 2,461 US service members — he misleadingly accused the Obama administration of giving Iran billions of dollars to buy missiles to use
Munaza Shaheed VOA News December 11, 2021 WASHINGTON — Fahima Sarfaraz, an acid attack survivor who briefly stayed in a shelter to avoid domestic violence, is concerned for her friends and other women who used to live with her in the group home in Kabul, Afghanistan. “Taliban have closed down all the women’s shelters in the