Afghanistan Is Trying to Save Its Child Bombers
In a room full of loud teenagers, 17-year-old Mohammad Ehsan is the quietest. (The names of the boys in this piece have been changed to protect their identities.) The other boys in this juvenile ...
New developments in the peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban have raised both hopes and concerns of the Afghan people. New developments in the peace talks between the U.S. and the Taliban have raised both hopes and concerns of the Afghan people. In the latest round of meeting between the U.S. special envoy,...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah joined a field of 17 candidates for July’s presidential election as nominations closed yesterday. Other prominent contenders for the post include Hanif Atmar, who resigned as national security adviser last year because of differences with Mr Ghani on policy issues, as well as former warlord...
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has come under fire after one of its leaders described prominent opposition leader Mayawati as a “blot on womankind” and “worse than a transgender”. Mayawati, who goes by one name, is the head of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and a prominent figure among India’s lower-caste communities commonly referred to as...
A massive truck bomb explosion in Kabul on Monday claimed four lives, including those of an Indian and an American national, and injured at least 113 others, including 23 children. Claimed by the Taliban, this is one of the first major attacks in the new year in Afghanistan, after a brief period of quiet that followed the...
At least 23 children are among the scores wounded after an explosion at a high-security rest and recovery compound in east Kabul killed four on Monday. At least four were killed and over 90 thought to be wounded in the explosion in the 9th district of Kabul, Ministry of Interior Ministry Spokesman Najib Danish said...
“Dear Mr President, the land of Farah has no more capacity to build cemeteries for our youth,” Afghan journalist Javid Noori, 27, wrote on his Facebook page in November, frustrated at the rising number of civilian casualties in his home province in western Afghanistan. “We would thank you to provide us land for graveyards to...
In a press conference held on Wednesday in Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump made comments with regard to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent war. “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there,” Mr. Trump told reporters, justifying the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan,...
US President Donald Trump’s comments on Wednesday applauding the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan did not sit well with many Afghans, who said his remarks revealed a poor understanding of the war. “President Trump fails to recognise basic historical facts on the 1979 illegal invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union,” Javid Faisal, former government...
Laila Haidari risks her life to run the country’s only private rehabilitation centre, helping hundreds of addicts a year
From Russia and the US to the UAE, several powers and stakeholders in the Afghan conflict have started engaging with the insurgent group to secure a long lasting peace in the country.
