40% of Afghanistan evacuees who fled to Japan have since left, citing poor support

A group of Afghans arrive at Narita Airport in October 2021. | KYODO

Around 40% of the 169 people who fled to Japan from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s return to power in August last year have left their new home due to what they say was pressure and a lack of support from Japan’s Foreign Ministry. Although Japan has granted refugee status to 98 people, 58 others returned

Deadly blast in Afghan mosque kills prominent pro-Taliban cleric

Deadly blast in Afghan mosque kills prominent pro-Taliban cleric

Issued on: 02/09/2022 – 13:44 An explosion tore through a crowded mosque in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 18 people, including a prominent cleric, Taliban officials and a local medic said. At least 21 people were hurt.  The blast went off in the Guzargah Mosque in the western city of Herat during Friday

A year since US pullout: How Taliban 2.0 has changed Afghanistan

A year since US pullout: How Taliban 2.0 has changed Afghanistan

fighters celebrated joyously as the last American troops were boarding their flights back home. “The last American soldier left Kabul airport at 9pm Afghan time and our country gained full independence, Alhamdulillah Walmana,” Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted in the early hours of August 31, 2021. marked an official end to America’s two-decade-long bloody war

Zawahiri killing was a great success of a bygone era

For the Joe Biden, the strike shows America can still target bad guys wherever they may be hiding. For his critics, the attack shows al-Qaida has taken up residenc in Afghanistan once again, something the U.S. president said would not happen when he pulled U.S. forces out of the country. 
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The U.S. drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of al-Qaida and one of the last remaining architects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, delivered a measure of justice. It did not deliver resolution in the debates still surrounding U.S. counterterrorism policy. For President Joe Biden, the strike shows America can still target bad guys

Taliban’s first annual Afghan budget foresees $501 million deficit

Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Mawlavi Abdul Salam Hanafi speaks during a ceremony to raise the Taliban flag in Kabul in March.  | REUTERS

KABUL – Afghanistan faces a budget deficit of 44 billion Afghanis ($501 million) this financial year, the country’s Taliban authorities said on Saturday without clarifying how the gap between expected revenues and planned spending will be met. Announcing the first annual national budget since the Taliban took over the war-torn country in August last year,

Some Afghan women defy Taliban edict

Some Afghan women defy Taliban edict

Issued on: 14/05/2022 – 11:14 The Taliban earlier this month issued a decree urging women to stay home and ordering those who have to go out to cover their faces with a burqa. But a few brave Afghan women have vowed to defy the restrictive edict. A day after the Taliban issued a decree on May

Afghan women rip down banners when Taliban refuse to talk about education

Afghan women rip down banners when Taliban refuse to talk about education

Issued on: 06/04/2022 – 18:27 They went to the meeting hoping to talk to the Taliban about Afghan women’s right to education. Around 400 women and girls, many of them of high-school and university age, showed up on April 1 at a sports hall in the central city of Bamiyan for what they had been

Taliban Detain Westerners in Afghanistan, Including One American

Taliban Detain Westerners in Afghanistan, Including One American

Seven other Westerners have been detained in Kabul considering that December. Among them is American, and the remaining 6 are British residents, including one U.S. long-term local. They were nabbed separately and deal with undefined allegations. The majority of them had worked in the security sector, according to individuals with understanding of their activities in

Female students join male peers as Afghan universities reopen

Taliban fighters stand guard at the main gate of Laghman University in Afghanistan's Laghman province on Wednesday.  | AFP-JIJI

JALALABAD, Afghanistan– Afghanistans public universities opened on Wednesday for the first time considering that the Taliban took over the nation last year, with female trainees joining their male counterparts heading back to campus.The Taliban administration has not formally revealed its plan for female university students, but education authorities stated females were permitted to participate in

Afghanistan: Dominic Raab denies prioritising dogs over people

Afghanistan: Dominic Raab denies prioritising dogs over people

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